The Inheritance of Historiography, 350-900

by Holdsworth, Christopher; Wiseman, T.P.

• ISBN13: 9780859892728
• ISBN10: 0859892727
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-01-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

To what extent did the historians of the early Middle Ages inherit the aims and methods of Greek and Roman historiography? How far were they influenced by classical coventions about literary genre, rhetorical technique and political subject-matter? A conference held in Exeter in 1985 brought together a number of distinguished scholars to discuss these questions.This book presents nine of the contributions, on representative authors from the fourth century to the ninth. Together they provide an authorative guide tothe contrasts and continuities in history-writing from Byzantium to Alfred's Wessex.Contributions by T. S. Brown , Donald Bullough , Averil Cameron , James Campbell , Jill Harries , Robert Markus , Joihn Matthews , Roger Ray , B. H. Warmington and T.P. Wiseman

Author Biography

Peter Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at Exeter University and a Fellow of the British Academy. He came to Exeter in 1977, and was Head of Department from 1977 to 1990. Although he retired in 2001, he is still involved in graduate teaching at both MA and PhD levels.