Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity

Peter Van Nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Universiteit Gent, Belgium, where he leads an ERC-funded team on late ancient historiography. His recent publications include Rethinking the Gods: Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period (Cambridge, 2011), Orosius and the Rhetoric of History (2012), and Penser la tolérance durant l'Antiquité tardive (2018).

• List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: from imperial to post-imperial space in Late Ancient historiography Peter Van Nuffelen; 1. Constantinople's belated hegemony Anthony Kaldellis; 2. Beside the rim of the ocean: the edges of the world in fifth- and sixth- century historiography Peter Van Nuffelen; 3. Armenian space in Late Antiquity Tim Greenwood; 4. Narrative and space in Christian chronography: John of Biclaro on East, West, and orthodoxy Mark Humphries; 5. The Roman Empire in John of Ephesus' Church history: being Roman, writing Syriac Hartmut Leppin; 6. Changing geographies: West Syrian ecclesiastical historiography, AD 700–850 Philip Wood; 7. Where is Syriac Pilgrimage literature in Late Antiquity? Exploring the absence of a genre Scott Johnson; Bibliography; Index.

'… the contributions are first-rate essays, sure to benefit any student who reads them … Overall, this is a worthwhile collection.' J. A. S. Evans, Choice