Decline and Change in Late Antiquity
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ethnogenesis studies
Historiography
historiography methodology
History
Late oudheid
Late Roman Empire
Mithraism influence
multiculturalism in ancient history
pagan cults analysis
Rome (Empire)
Rome Histoire 284-476 (Bas-Empire) Historiographie
Rome Histoire 3e-6e siecles (Grandes Invasions) Historiographie
Rome History Empire
Rome History Germanic Invasions
Romeinse keizertijd
Visigothic settlement
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- ISBN 9780860789901
- Weight: 840g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The essays in this second collection of articles by Professor Liebeschuetz deal with several aspects of the history of Late Antiquity. One theme is the prehistory of Late Antique ethical monotheism, which is illustrated by studies of pagan cults, Mithraism and Judaism. Several essays discuss the nature of the people who took over large areas of the Western Roman Empire, especially the Visigoths and the Vandals. The author insists that the continuing 'ethnogenesis' of these groups was made possible by customs and traditions, some of them going back before the entry of these peoples into the Empire. It is argued that the fact that formal possession of Roman citizenship became unimportant, helped the barbarian settlers to expand their groups and to consolidate their ethnic solidarity. Other papers deal with the historiography of Late Antiquity, and, more generally, with the writings of historians from Thucydides to A.H.M. Jones and Peter Brown. The anxiety of today's historians to reject the concept of decline is linked to current political concerns, especially to the ideology of multiculturalism. A recurring theme is the relationship between the historian's own background and his or her writing.
J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham, UK.
