Mosaics of Time: The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the First Century BC to the Sixth Century AD. Volume I: A Historical Introduction to the Chronicle Genre from its Origins to the High Middle Ages. By R. W. Burgess and Michael Kulikowski
This significant work is the first of a planned series of four volumes, which will contain editions, translations, and commentaries for Latin chronicles from the Roman empire and late antiquity. The description of volume I as ‘a historical introduction’ does, however, belie the importance of its arg...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 772-774 |
| Review of: | Mosaics of time ; Vol. 1: A historical introduction to the chronicle genre from its origins to the High Middle Ages (Turnhout : Brepols, 2013) (Flower, Richard)
Mosaics of time (Turnhout : Brepols, 2013) (Flower, Richard) |
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| Summary: | This significant work is the first of a planned series of four volumes, which will contain editions, translations, and commentaries for Latin chronicles from the Roman empire and late antiquity. The description of volume I as ‘a historical introduction’ does, however, belie the importance of its arguments for anyone who studies or uses chronicles from the ancient or medieval world. The main aims of this work are to standardize the nomenclature applied to different written accounts of the past and to prove that the medieval chronicle genre has its roots in traditions that stretch back at least as far as Greco-Roman antiquity, and probably also into earlier Near Eastern cultures. Much of this argument is set out in chapter 1, with medievalists receiving the majority of the criticism. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu127 |