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The rhetoric of power in late antiquity : religion and politics in Byzantium, Europe and the early Islamic world / edited by Robert M. Frakes, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser & Justin Stephens.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Library of classical studies ; v. 2.
- Library of classical studies ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Ancient--Historiography.
- History, Ancient.
- History.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- Rhetoric.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Byzantine Empire--History--527-1081--Historiography.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire--History--To 527--Historiography.
- Islamic Empire--Historiography.
- Islamic Empire.
- Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Historiography.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, c2018
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the crisis of Roman Empire in the third century to the Middle Ages, has traditionally been considered only in terms of the 'decline' from classical standards. Recent classical scholarship strives to consider this period on its own terms. Taking the reign of Constantine the Great as its starting point, this book examines the unique intersection of rhetoric, religion and politics in Late Antiquity. Expert scholars come together to examine ancient rhetorical texts to explore the ways in which late antique authors drew upon classical traditions, presen.
- Contents:
- The Adventus of Julian at Sirmium: the literary construction of historical reality in Ammianus Mercellinus / Eric Fournier
- Butheric and the charioteer / Robert M. Frakes
- Calming an angry enemy: Attila, Leo I, and the diplomacy of ambiguity, 425 / Michael Blodgett
- "Patres Orphanorum": Ambrose of Milan and the construction of the role of the bishop / Michael Proulx
- "Your brothers, the Romans": early Islamic history as a turn of the classical page in early Muslim thought and literature / Thomas Sizgorich
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613057488
- 9780755605576
- 0755605578
- 9780755603916
- 0755603915
- 9781283057486
- 1283057484
- 9780857719195
- 085771919X
- OCLC:
- 713357361
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