Writing History in Late Antique Iberia: Historiography in Theory and Practice from the 4th to the 7th Century

doi:10.1017/9789048544974

Writing History in Late Antique Iberia

Historiography in Theory and Practice from the 4th to the 7th Century

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Edited by Purificación Ubric Rabaneda, Universidad de Granada

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: April 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9789048544974
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544974

Series:: Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
Subjects:: History, History of Science: General Interest

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This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past. The volume includes general topics related to the writing of history, such as the historiographical debates on writing history, the praxis of history writing and the role of central and local powers in the construction of the past, the legitimacy of history, the exaltation of Christian history to the detriment of other religious beliefs, and the perception of time in hagiographical texts. Further points of interest in the volume are the specific studies on the historiographical culture. All these issues are analysed from an innovative perspective, which combines traditional subjects with new historiographical topics, such as the configuration of historical discourse through another type of documentation like councils, hagiography or legislation.

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Writing History in Late Antique Iberia

Historiography in Theory and Practice from the 4th to the 7th Century

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Table of Contents
pp 5-6

1 - Writing History in Late Antique Iberia: Theory and Praxis
pp 7-20

2 - Para qué sirve la Historia : Principios teóricos de la historiografía hispana tardoantigua
pp 21-42

3 - From Christian Historiography to the Emergence of National Histories : Spanish Historiography between Romans and Visigoths
pp 43-64

4 - Orosius: An Iberian Patriot’s History of Rome
pp 65-84

5 - Orosius, Barbarians, and the Christian Success Story
pp 85-100

6 - Prophecies and Omens of the Fall of the Roman Empire in the Chronicle of Hydatius of Lemica
pp 101-116

7 - La dimensión política de los historiadores del reino visigodo de Toledo
pp 117-138

8 - The Definitions and Uses of Historia in Isidore of Seville
pp 139-154

9 - Bishops and Their Biographers : The Praxis of History Writing in Visigothic Iberia
pp 155-180

10 - Local Powers and Construction of the Past in the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania
pp 181-200

11 - The Contemplation of the Past in the Libellus Precum of Faustinus (and Marcellinus)
pp 201-222

12 - Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy : The Historiography of Hispania in Late Antiquity
pp 223-242

13 - Expulsados de la Historia : El argumento histórico en la polémica antijudía hispana (siglos IV-VII)
pp 243-272

14 - Consideraciones sobre la temporalidad en las Vitae Sanctorum visigóticas
pp 273-292

15 - The Image of Leovigild as Arian Monarch in the ‘Vitas Patrum Emeritensium’ : From Historical Reality to Hagiographical Deformation
pp 293-306

Index
pp 307-312

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