1st Edition

Engaging with the Past, c.250-c.650

By Brian Croke Copyright 2023
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

Between c.250 and c.650, the way the past was seen, recorded and interpreted for a contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key elements of this historiographical revolution become clear, with the recasting of the period, across both east and west, as ‘late antiquity’. Historiography, however, has struggled to find its place in this new scholarly world. No longer... Read more

Introduction: Organising History and Historiography

1. Reflecting on an Historiographical Half-Century, 1970-2020 (previously unpublished)

2. Historiography in Late Antiquity: An Overview, originally published in History and Historians in Late Antiquity (1983), 1-12.

3. Latin Historiography in the Barbarian Kingdoms, originally published in Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity: Fourth to Sixth Century A.D. (2003), 349-389.

4. Historiography, originally published in The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (2012), 405-436.

5. Tradition and Originality in Photius’ Historical Reading, originally published in Byzantine Narrative (2006), 59-70.

6. Uncovering Byzantium’s Historiographical Audience, originally published in Byzantine History as Literature (2010), 23-51.

7. Momigliano’s Historiographical Contribution, c. 250-c.650 (previously unpublished)

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Biography

Brian Croke is an Honorary Associate in Ancient History at the University of Sydney and an expert adviser in education. He is the author of over 100 articles on various aspects of ancient, Byzantine and modern history and historiography, as well as education, and a range of books including The Chronicle of Marcellinus (1995), Christian Chronicles and Byzantine History (1992), Count Marcellinus (2001), Roman Emperors in Context (2021) and Flashpoint Hagia Sophia (2022).