Historiae mundi : studies in universal history /
Universal History is a type of history that attempts to explain the world beyond the immediate surroundings of the author. It reflects a desire to synthesise the mass of written and oral knowledge about the past and to introduce a systematic interpretation. The purpose of this collection is to re-ex...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Tim Cornell, Andrew Fear, Peter Liddel.
- Metabole politeion as universal historiography / Peter Liddel.
- Polybius and the first universal history / François Hartog.
- Diodorus' reading of Polybius' universalism / Brian Sheridan.
- Diodorus' good statesman and state revenue / Errietta Bissa.
- Strabo and the development of ancient Greek universal historiography / Johannes Engels.
- The glory of Italy and Rome's universal destiny in Strabo's Gegraphika / Marta García Morcillo.
- Universal history and the early Roman historians / Tim Cornell.
- Universal and particular in Velleius Paterculus : Carthage versus Rome / Clemence Schultze.
- Focalised universality : contextualising the genre / Liv Mariah Yarrow.
- Ennius as universal historian : the case of the Annales / Jackie Elliott.
- Theology versus genre? the universalism of Christian historiography in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen.
- Orosius and escaping from the dance of doom / Andrew Fear.
- A rose in the desert? Late antiquity and early Byzantine chronicles and the formation of Islamic universal historiography / Marco Di Branco.
- Universal historiography and world history according to Hegel / Allegra de Laurentiis.
- Spengler, the modern west, and Roman decline / John Farrenkopf.