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HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SPACE IN LATE ANTIQUITY TheRomanEmpiretraditionallypresenteditselfasthecentreofthe world,aviewsustainedbyancienteducationandconveyedinimper- ialliterature.Historiographyinparticulartendedtobewrittenfrom an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by the fragmentation of the empire. This bookexploreshowapost-imperialrepresentationofspaceemergesin thehistoriographyofthatperiod.Mindsadaptedslowly,longignor- ingConstantinopleasthenewcapitalandstillfindingcounter-worlds attheedgesoftheworld.EveninChristianliterature,oftenthought ofasintroducinganewconceptionofspace,theempirecontinuedto influence geographies. Political changes and theological ideas, how- ever,helpedtoimagineatransferralofempireawayfromRomeand to substitute ecclesiastical for imperial space. By the end of Late Antiquity,Romewasjustoneofmanycentresoftheworld. peter van nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, where he leads an European Research Council–funded teamonlateancienthistoriography.Hisrecentpublicationsinclude Rethinking the Gods: Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post- HellenisticPeriod(CambridgeUniversityPress,2011),Orosiusandthe Rhetoric of History (2012) and Penser la tolérance durant l’Antiquité tardive(2018). HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SPACE IN LATE ANTIQUITY edited by PETER VAN NUFFELEN GhentUniversity,Belgium UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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Contents ListofContributors pagevii Acknowledgements ix Introduction:FromImperialtoPost-ImperialSpace inLateAncientHistoriography 1 PeterVanNuffelen 1 Constantinople’sBelatedHegemony 14 AnthonyKaldellis 2 BesidetheRimoftheOcean:TheEdgesoftheWorldin Fifth-andSixth-CenturyHistoriography 36 PeterVanNuffelen 3 ArmenianSpaceinLateAntiquity 57 TimGreenwood 4 NarrativeandSpaceinChristianChronography:John ofBiclaroonEast,WestandOrthodoxy 86 MarkHumphries 5 TheRomanEmpireinJohnofEphesus’sChurchHistory: BeingRoman,WritingSyriac 113 HartmutLeppin 6 ChangingGeographies:WestSyrianEcclesiastical Historiography,AD700–850 136 PhilipWood v vi Contents 7 WhereIsSyriacPilgrimageLiteratureinLateAntiquity? ExploringtheAbsenceofaGenre 164 ScottJohnson Bibliography 181 Index 213 Contributors tim greenwood is Reader in the Department of Mediaeval History at theUniversityofStAndrews.Heistheauthorofnumerousstudieson the political, social and cultural history of late antique and medieval Armenia and has recently published The Universal History of Step‘anos Tarōnec‘i (2017), the first English translation and commentary of this early-eleventh-centuryArmeniantext. mark humphries is Professor of Ancient History and Head of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University. He has published widely on various aspects of history, literatureandreligioninlateantiquity.Heisoneofthegeneraleditors oftheseriesTranslatedTextsforHistorians. scott johnson is Associate Professor of Classics and Letters at the UniversityofOklahoma.Hestudiestheliteraryandculturalhistoryof the late antique world. His book Literary Territories: Cartographical ThinkinginLateAntiquitywaspublishedin2016. anthony kaldellis is Professor and Chair of Classics at The Ohio StateUniversity.Hehaspublishedmanybooksandarticlesonaspectsof Byzantinehistory,literatureandculture,includingmanytranslationsof Byzantinesources. hartmutleppinisProfessorofAncientHistoryattheGoetheUniversity FrankfurtamMainandPrincipalInvestigatoroftheLeibnizprizeproject PolyphonyofLateAntiqueChristianity.Hismainresearchareasarethe historyofpolitical ideasandthehistoryofChristianityinantiquity.He recentlypublishedDiefrühenChristen.VondenAnfängenbisKonstantin (2018)andwithS.Alkier(ed.),Juden,Christen,Heiden.ReligiöseInklusion undExklusioninKleinasienbisDecius(2018). vii viii ListofContributors peter van nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University. He publishes on philosophy and religion of the Roman Empire, Early Christianity and the history and literature of Late Antiquity. His most recent book is Penser la tolérance durant l’Antiquité tardive (2018). With Lieve Van Hoof, he is publishing a translation of Jordanes in the Translated Texts for Historians series, a Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris, and an edition of fragmen- taryLatinhistoriansofLateAntiquity(CambridgeUniversityPress). philip woodisAssociateProfessorattheAgaKhanUniversity,Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, in London. His research deals with minority groups in the Roman and Sasanian empires and in the UmayyadandAbbasidcaliphates,fromthefifthtotheninthcenturies. He has published two monographs on this subject: We Have No King butChrist:ChristianPoliticalThoughtinGreaterSyriaontheEveofthe ArabConquests(c.400–585)(2010)andTheChronicleofSeert:Christian HistoricalImaginationinLateAntiqueIraq(2013).Heiscurrentlywork- ingonabookonChristiansintheninth-centuryJazira.
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