Trends and turning points : constructing the late antique and Byzantine world /

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"Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kinloch, Matthew (Editor ), MacFarlane, Alex Dally (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Colección:Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 117.
Temas:
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Civilization.
Byzantine Empire > History.
Byzantine Empire > Civilization.
Empire byzantin > Histoire.
Empire byzantin > Civilisation.
Byzantine Empire.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands, Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004395749
9004395741
ISSN:0928-5520 ;

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