Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity PDF
Edited by Peter Van Nuffelen
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The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature.
Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective.
In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by the fragmentation of the empire.
This book explores how a post-imperial representation of space emerges in the historiography of that period.
Minds adapted slowly, long ignoring Constantinople as the new capital and still finding counter-worlds at the edges of the world.
Even in Christian literature, often thought of as introducing a new conception of space, the empire continued to influence geographies.
Political changes and theological ideas, however, helped to imagine a transferral of empire away from Rome and to substitute ecclesiastical for imperial space.
By the end of Late Antiquity, Rome was just one of many centres of the world.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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