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Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian
Peter Bell
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Description for Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian
Paperback. Featuring commentary and introduction, this title brings together three important works. It provides an important insight into the early Byzantine period. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
This one-volume translation, with commentary and introduction brings together three important works. All three texts cast great, if generally neglected light on politics and ideology in early Byzantium. Agapetus wrote, c. 527-30CE, from a position sympathetic to Justinian, when he had still to consolidate his authority. He sets out what an emperor must do to acquire legitimacy, in terms of government's being the imitation of God. Read in context, his work is much more than a list of pious commonplaces. The Dialogue, written anonymously towards the end the same reign, comprises fragments from Books 4-5 of ... Read more
This one-volume translation, with commentary and introduction brings together three important works. All three texts cast great, if generally neglected light on politics and ideology in early Byzantium. Agapetus wrote, c. 527-30CE, from a position sympathetic to Justinian, when he had still to consolidate his authority. He sets out what an emperor must do to acquire legitimacy, in terms of government's being the imitation of God. Read in context, his work is much more than a list of pious commonplaces. The Dialogue, written anonymously towards the end the same reign, comprises fragments from Books 4-5 of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Translated Texts for Historians
Condition
New
Weight
339g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846312090
SKU
V9781846312090
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About Peter Bell
Peter Bell teaches at the University of Oxford.
Reviews for Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian
This is an important volume, one that should be required reading for scholars and students of the sixth century. The translations are precise and accessible and are accompanied by a wealth of analysis and commentary. Early Medieval Europe, 20 (4) Bell's book marks a new starting point for exploring these texts. He has succeeded in producing a clear and ... Read more