The Roman Empire of Ammianus.  -  J. Matthews

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'Like the 'History' that inspired it, Matthews new book is long, discursive, occasionally self-indulgent and frequently repetitive, but always immensely entertaining and stimulating. (...) M. displays a very modern appreciation of the 'History' as living 'text', paying great attention, for example, to 'the layers of conventions and technique' that stand between it and the twentieth-century reader, and so refusing to treat it simply as a convenient quarry of historical information. His constant emphasis on t...
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1989 Uitgever: Duckworth 608 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0715622463 ISBN-13: 9780715622469