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REVIEW to: Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz, Beginning and End: From Ammianus Marcellinus to Eusebius of Caesarea, Anejo VII de Exemplaria Classica, Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2016 (ISBN 978-84-16872-02-2) [PDF]
Talia dixit, 2017 BEGINNING AND END, FROM DUSK TO DAWN ... The beginnings of the Christian historiographical genre and the end of pagan historiography, both symbolized in two personalities that, one from Christianity and one from paganism, live and write history in Latin ...
María Luisa Harto Trujillo
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The Counterfeit and Fake Emperor - Procopius in the Res Gestae of Ammanius Marcelinus
Classica Cracoviensia, 2015 The Counterfeit and Fake Emperor - Procopius in the Res Gestae of Ammanius Marcelinus The article discusses Procopius’ usurpation which took place in 365-366 AD. Ammianus in his Res gestae deals not only with the historical details of this event, but
Anna Mleczek
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Orientals in Late Antique Italy: Some Observations
Electrum, 2022 Some evidence points at the presence of Orientals in late Roman Italy: traders (labelled “Syrians”), petty sellers (the pantapolae in Nov. Val.
Giusto Traina
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LES ETHNONYMES DANS LES HISTOIRES D’AMMIEN MARCELLIN [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2013 This paper analyzes the role of ethnonyms in Ammianus Marcellinus’ Roman History . On the one hand, the different ways of naming ‘the other’ represent a literary device used by the historian in order to classify people from outside the Roman border ...
Elena Emilia ȘTEFAN
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Michael Hanaghan, David Woods (eds.), Ammianus Marcellinus from Soldier to Author
Acta Universitatis Carolinae PhilologicaBook review on Michael Hanaghan, David Woods (eds.), Ammianus Marcellinus from Soldier to Author. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2022, xii + 420 pages, maps, pictures, ISBN 978-90-04-52529-0 (hardback), 978-90-04-52535-1 (ebook)
Tunç Türel
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The ends of history? Jerome, Geruchia, and the Rhine crossings
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 71-93, February 2025.This article revisits Jerome’s treatment of the Rhine crossings of 406 in his letter to the widow Geruchia, and the broader issue of breaching the Roman limes. It argues that his description of the events in Gaul and on the border was framed to fit his notion of the history of salvation.
Mateusz Fafinski
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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Belgeo, 2014 Most authors, travelers or not, often conform to tradition and show cognitive schemas and sometimes outdated or stereotyped. We must distinguish those who attempted to reflect a seen and updated reality, in particular Ammianus Marcellinus about ...
Delphine Acolat
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2021 Introduction. During the whole 4th c. the Late Roman frontier military units constantly took part in military campaigns against different enemies of the Empire, hovewer the author of this paper asks the question how precisely frontier military ...
Evgeniy Mekhamadiev
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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