"Die 18 Bücher umfassende Chronik des Johannes Malalas stellt das älteste erhaltene Beispiel einer byzantinischen Weltchronik dar und bietet damit singuläre Einblicke in die Frühphase einer literarischen Gattung, die für das byzantinische Mittelalter zentrale Bedeutung besessen …
"Die 18 Bücher umfassende Chronik des Johannes Malalas stellt das älteste erhaltene Beispiel einer byzantinischen Weltchronik dar und bietet damit singuläre Einblicke in die Frühphase einer literarischen Gattung, die für das byzantinische Mittelalter zentrale Bedeutung besessen …
"Die 18 Bücher umfassende Chronik des Johannes Malalas stellt das älteste erhaltene Beispiel einer byzantinischen Weltchronik dar und bietet damit singuläre Einblicke in die Frühphase einer literarischen Gattung, die für das byzantinische Mittelalter zentrale Bedeutung besessen …
"Die 18 Bücher umfassende Chronik des Johannes Malalas stellt das älteste erhaltene Beispiel einer byzantinischen Weltchronik dar und bietet damit singuläre Einblicke in die Frühphase einer literarischen Gattung, die für das byzantinische Mittelalter zentrale Bedeutung besessen …
Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political transformations nourished its development, but resistance to it has pers…
"Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture presents a series of unexplored case studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, each demonstrating how travellers, scientists, Catholic missionaries, scholars and diplomats contributed to understandings of various global i…
'Reason of state' and universal history: Boccalini and Botero / Girolamo Imbruglia -- The idea of Ottoman despotism in the Relazioni of the Venetian ambassadors / Giuseppe Trebbi -- The Turkish enemy and the Eastern European space in Giambattista Vico's Deeds of Antonio Carafa /…
"Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture presents a series of unexplored case studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, each demonstrating how travellers, scientists, Catholic missionaries, scholars and diplomats contributed to understandings of various global i…
"Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture presents a series of unexplored case studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, each demonstrating how travellers, scientists, Catholic missionaries, scholars and diplomats contributed to understandings of various global i…
"Found in pre-modern cultures of every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-modern cultural forms and one of the most overlooked. Universal chronicles narrate …
The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction discusses how, when, and why a 'global Middle Ages' was conceptualized; explains and considers the terms that are deployed in studying, teaching, and researching a Global Middle Ages; and critically reflects on the issues that arise in the…
This work re-examines the notion of universal historiography with a focus on its appearance in the Greek and Roman world and on the legacy that ancient authors offered to later generations. It looks at how diversity of forms, structures, themes and analyses demonstrate the conte…
Universal History is a type of history that attempts to explain the world beyond the immediate surroundings of the author. It reflects a desire to synthesise the mass of written and oral knowledge about the past and to introduce a systematic interpretation. The purpose of this c…