Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity

Posted on 2019-08-312019-08-31 by Peter Van Nuffelen

Author : Peter Van Nuffelen

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Release : 2019-08-31

ISBN-13 : 1108481280

Page : 248 pages

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The later Roman Empire was shrinking on the map, but still shaped the way historians represented the space around them.

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