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Subject(s)

• Coinage—Rome—History [Browse]
• Rome—History—Empire, 284-476—Historiography [Browse]
• Rome—History—Empire, 284-476—Sources [Browse]

Series

• Collected studies ; CS984. [More in this series]
• Variorum collected studies series ; CS984

Biographical/​Historical note

R.W. Burgess is Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada

Summary note

The papers collected in this volume focus on the sources for reconstructing the history of the third to fifth centuries AD. The first section, 'Historiography', looks at a small group of chronicles and breviaria whose texts are fundamental for our reconstruction of the history of the third and fourth centuries, some well known, others much less so: Eusebius of Caesarea, Jerome, the lost Kaisergeschichte, and Eutropius. In this section the goal in each case is a specific attempt to come to a better understanding of the structure, composition, date, or author of these historical texts. The second section, 'History', presents a group of historical studies, ranging in time from the death of Constantine in 337 to the vicennalia of Anastasius in 511. In these papers the keys to the conclusions offered arise from a better understanding of the literary sources - particularly chronicles and consularia -, an understanding of the evolution of historical accounts over time, or the employment of sources that are either new or unusual in these particular contexts: consular fasti, coins, papyri, and itineraries.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• The dates and editions of Eusebius' Chronici canones and Historia ecclesastica / Journal of theological studies, n.s. 48, 1997
• A chronological prolegomenon to reconstructing Eusebius' Chronici canones: the evidence of Ps-Dionysius (the Zuqnin chronicle) / Journal of the Canadian society for Syriac studies 6, 2006
• Jerome explained: an introduction to his Chronicle and a guide to its use / Ancient history bulletin 16, 2002
• Jerome and the Kaisergeschichte / Historia 44, 1995
• On the date of the Kaisergeschichte / Classical philology 90, 1995
• Principes cum tyrannis: two studies on the Kaisergeschichte and its tradtion / Classical quaterly 43, 1993
• A common source for Jerome, Eutropius, Festus, Ammianus, and the Epitome de Caesaribus between 358 and 378, along with further thoughts on the date and nature of the Kaisergeschichte / Classical Philology 100, 2005
• Eutropus v. c. magister memoriae? / Classical philology 96, 2001
• [Achurōn] or [proasteion]? The location and circumstances of Constantine's death / Journal of theological studies, n.s. 50, 1999
• The summer of blood: the 'great massacre' of 337 and the promotion of the sons of Constantine / Dumbarton Oaks papers 62, 2008
• The Passio s. artemii, Philostorgius, and the dates of the invention and translation of the relics of Sts Andrew and Luke / Analecta bollandiana 121, 2003
• The accession of Marcian in the light of Chalcedonian apologetic and Monophysite polemic / Byzantinische zeitschrift 86/87, 1993/1994
• The third regnal year of Eparchius Avitus: a reply / Classical philology 82, 1987
• Quinquennial vota and the imperial consulship in the fourth and fifth centuries, 337-511 / Numismatic chronicle 148, 1988
• 'Non duo Antonini sed duo Augusti': the consuls of 161 and the origins and traditions of the Latin consular fasti of the Roman empire / Zeitschrift für papyrolgie und epigraphik 132, 2000.

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Other title(s)

Historiography and history in the later Roman Empire

ISBN

• 9781003420811 ((electronic bk.))
• 1003420818 ((electronic bk.))
• 9781000948844 ((electronic bk. : EPUB))
• 1000948846 ((electronic bk. : EPUB))
• 9781000942125 ((electronic bk. : PDF))
• 1000942120 ((electronic bk. : PDF))

OCLC

1380360921

Doi

• 10.4324/9781003420811

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