Writing History in Late Antique Iberia : : Historiography in Theory and Practice from the 4th to the 7th Century /

Writing History in Late Antique Iberia : : Historiography in Theory and Practice from the 4th to the 7th Century / / ed. by Purificación Ubric Rabaneda.

This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past. The volume includes general topics r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Acerbi, Silvia,
Aulisa, Immacolata,
Bravo, Gonzalo,
Castellanos, Santiago,
Fear, Andrew,
Gabrielli, Chantal,
González-Salinero, Raúl,
Inglebert, Hervé,
Kahlos, Maijastina,
Maldonado, Pedro Castillo,
Marzo, Laura,
Rabaneda, Purificación Ubric,
Teja, Ramón,
Ventura, Francisco Salvador,
Wood, Jamie,
HerausgeberIn:
Ubric Rabaneda, Purificación,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. Writing History in Late Antique Iberia: Theory and Praxis
  • 2. Para qué sirve la Historia : Principios teóricos de la historiografía hispana tardoantigua
  • 3. From Christian Historiography to the Emergence of National Histories : Spanish Historiography between Romans and Visigoths
  • 4. Orosius: An Iberian Patriot’s History of Rome
  • 5. Orosius, Barbarians, and the Christian Success Story
  • 6. Prophecies and Omens of the Fall of the Roman Empire in the Chronicle of Hydatius of Lemica
  • 7. La dimensión política de los historiadores del reino visigodo de Toledo
  • 8. The Definitions and Uses of Historia in Isidore of Seville
  • 9. Bishops and Their Biographers : The Praxis of History Writing in Visigothic Iberia
  • 10. Local Powers and Construction of the Past in the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania
  • 11. The Contemplation of the Past in the Libellus Precum of Faustinus (and Marcellinus)
  • 12. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy : The Historiography of Hispania in Late Antiquity
  • 13. Expulsados de la Historia : El argumento histórico en la polémica antijudía hispana (siglos IV-VII)
  • 14. Consideraciones sobre la temporalidad en las Vitae Sanctorum visigóticas
  • 15. The Image of Leovigild as Arian Monarch in the ‘Vitas Patrum Emeritensium’:1 From Historical Reality to Hagiographical Deformation
  • Index

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