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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Universal Historiography in Antiquity and Beyond Manchester, England
Otros Autores: Fear, A. T., Liddel, Peter P. (Peter Philip), 1977-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.