Victoria Leonard

In Defiance of History

Orosius and the Unimproved Past

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a counterbalance to the dismissal that Orosius's Histories Against the Pagans has suffered in most recent criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781472474681
• ISBN-10: 1472474686
• Artikelnr.: 60018526

Autorenporträt

Victoria Leonard is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, and at the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research focuses on the late antique and early medieval western Mediterranean. She has published on religious conflict, gender and violence, and ancient historiography. Most recently, she co-edited the volume Bodily Fluids in Antiquity with Mark Bradley and Laurence Totelin, which was published by Routledge in 2021.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Orosius as a Writer of History
Chapter 2. The Making of Time
Chapter 3. The Emperor and the Divine
Chapter 4. Apologetics and the Providence of War
Chapter 5. The Sack of Rome: Christianizing Disaster