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Christopher Holdsworth and T. P. Wiseman, eds.
The Inheritance of Historiography, 350-900.
Published Exeter U.P., 1986.
Series: Exeter Studies in History, no. 12.
ISBN 0859892727.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: A. Wheaton & Co., Exeter.
Size: 148x209x9mm.
Page count: [vi],138pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, a little wear on the edges and corners; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £14.99]
Weight without packaging: 222g.

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Contents:
Wiseman, Intro — classical historiography;
Warmington, Did Athanasius write history?;
Matthews, Ammianus & the eternity of Rome;
Markus, Chronicle & theology — Prosper of Aquitaine;
Harries, Sozomen & Eusebius — lawyer as church historian in the 5th c.;
Cameron, History as text — coping with Procopius;
Ray, Triumph of Greco-Roman rhetorical assumptions in pre-Carolingian historiography;
Bullough, Ethnic history & the Carolingians — alternative reading of Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum;
Brown, Romanitas & campanilismo — Agnellus of Ravenna's view of the past;
Campbell, Asser's view of Alfred.

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

See also | Historiography | Late Antiquity |
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