By A. H. Merrills
The civilized global witnessed tremendous political, social and spiritual swap from the 5th century to the 8th century. Geographical and ancient concept, lengthy rooted to Roman ideologies, needed to undertake new views of overdue antiquity. Taking their lead from Orosius within the early 5th century, Latin historians grew to become more and more to geographical description, in addition to historic narrative, to ascertain the area round them.
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Jud. 8 – a vivid celebration of Roman authority. See Momigliano (1963), p. 110. 21 Introduction: history’s other eye importance of the empire to the evolving Christian Church in the fourth century. 72 Eusebius of Caesarea was indisputably the central figure within the development of this Christian historical discourse. 74 The Chronicon of Eusebius-Jerome was to be revised and expanded repeatedly over the centuries that followed, with countless individual writers taking up the threads of the great chronology where previous writers had left off.
47 While modern geographers and philosophers in both Britain and the United States have assiduously attempted to map the disciplinary frontier, historians have generally subsumed elements of social scientific thought with 43 44 45 46 47 Myers (1936), p. ’ Myers (1936), p. x. On recent developments in the discipline, see the collected studies in Jones and Dimbleby (1981) and Rackham (1994) and now Dark (2000). Myers (1936), p. 335. It is worth noting that Myers’ argument was partially anticipated in the late nineteenth century.
With this compare now Baker (2003). Some of the difficulties engendered by the separation of the approach from other methods of historical understanding, particularly on the nature of ‘human time’, are highlighted by Guelke (1997). To cite just three studies which have been enormously influential in the understanding of early British history, see Hoskins (1955) – a seminal and immensely readable assessment of the English landscape; Dark and Dark (1997) – a more detailed discussion of the environment of Roman Britain; and Hooke (1985) – an illuminating case study of Saxon Worcestershire.