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Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean : Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 AD
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Burgundians and Byzantium -- 2 'Avenger of all Perjury' in Constantinople, Ravenna and Metz: Saint Polyeuctus, Sigibert I, and the Division of Charibert's Kingdom in 568 -...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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London
: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
, 2014
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed |
| Schriftenreihe: | Criminal Practice Ser
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=1705771 |
| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als:
Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean : Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 AD |
| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Burgundians and Byzantium -- 2 'Avenger of all Perjury' in Constantinople, Ravenna and Metz: Saint Polyeuctus, Sigibert I, and the Division of Charibert's Kingdom in 568 -- 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 568 -- 6. Conclusion -- 3 The Historian as Cultural Broker in the Late and Post-Roman West -- 4 Rewriting History: Fredegar's Perspectives on the Mediterranean -- 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? -- 6 Mediterranean Lessons for Northumbrian Monks in Bede's Chronica Maiora -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Based on close analyses of contemporary texts, and backed by an examination of the origins of the elements transferred and of the process of transmission, the contributors to this volume focus on the perception and adaptation of knowledge and cultural elements in the West. Taking a variety of approaches, they shed light on the changing lines of communication between the Byzantine empire and other parts of the Mediterranean, on the one hand, and the Burgundian, Frankish and Anglo-Saxon realms and the Papacy on the other |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781472502124 |
