Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Paperback / softback Book

Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite Paperback / softback

Part of the Translated Texts for Historians series

Paperback / softback

Item not Available

Description

This is a Syriac text written, in all probability, by an inhabitant of Edessa almost immediately after the conclusion of the war between Rome and Persia in 502–506 AD.

Although that conflict is treated in other ancient texts, none of them can match ‘Joshua’ in his wealth of detail, his familiarity with the region where the hostilities occurred, and his proximity in time to the events.

The Chronicle also vividly describes the famine and plague that swept through Edessa in the years immediately before the war.

The work is a document of great importance for both the social and military history of late antiquity, remarkable for the information it provides on Roman and Persian empires alike.

Information

Save 5%

£25.00

£23.75

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the Translated Texts for Historians series  |  View all

Theodore Syncellus: The Homilies ‘On...

£100.00

Pre-Order

Vegetius

£27.50

£27.35

Add to Basket

Orosius

£34.99

Add to Basket

Bede: The Reckoning of Time

£34.99

£34.85

Add to Basket