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Western perspectives on the Mediterranean : cultural transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 AD /
A high-level scholarly collection of articles on the transmission of knowledge and culture from a Mediterranean world politically fragmented by the fall of the Western Roman empire and the Islamic expansion into Latin Europe, 400-800 AD.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page ; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction Andreas Fischer; 1 The Burgundians and Byzantium Ian Wood; 2 'Avenger of all Perjury' in Constantinople, Ravenna and Metz: Saint Polyeuctus, Sigibert I, and the Division of Charibert's Kingdom in 568 Stefan Esders; 1. Gregory of Tours and the Church of Saint Polyeuctus in Constantinople; 2. Polyeuctus, Hilary and Martin
- A Saintly Triumvirate in Merovingian Politics; 3. The Division of Charibert's Kingdom; 4. Saint Polyeuctus and Metz, the Austrasian Capital
- 5. The Division of Charibert's Kingdom and the Political Situation in 5686. Conclusion; 3 The Historian as Cultural Broker in the Late and Post-Roman West Helmut Reimitz; 4 Rewriting History: Fredegar's Perspectives on the Mediterranean Andreas Fischer; 1. The Fredegar-Chronicle: Horizon and Structure; 2. Fredegar and the Mediterranean: Questions and Problems; 3. Sources and Channels of Communication; 4. Making History: Author, Narrator and the Appropriation of Motifs; 5. A Tangible Context? Constans II in Italy, Abbot Hadrian, and Fredegar; 6. Conclusions
- 5 Greek Popes: Yes or No, and Did It Matter?Thomas F.X. Noble6 Mediterranean Lessons for Northumbrian Monks in Bede's Chronica Maiora Sören Kaschke; Notes; Bibliography; Index