A Companion to Julian the Apostate (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, 5) - Hardcover

Hans-Ulrich Wiemer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004414568 ISBN 13: 9789004414563

Publisher: BRILL, 2020

Synopsis

Few Roman emperors enjoy such fame as Julian the Apostate (361-363), the man who tried in vain to reverse the transformation of the Roman Empire into a Christian monarchy. This companion synthesizes international research on Julian and develops new perspectives on his rule.

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About the Author:

Stefan Rebenich holds the Chair of Ancient History and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bern (Switzerland). He has published widely in the field of late antiquity and the history of historiography, including Jerome (London: Routledge, 2002), and Theodor Mommsen. Eine Biographie (2nd ed, C.H. Beck 2007). Recently, he has edited a volume on Monarchische Herrschaft im Altertum (W. de Gruyter, 2017).

Hans-Ulrich Wiemer holds the chair of Ancient History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). He has published monographs and many articles on Alexander the Great, Hellenistic history and historiography, on Late Roman history and on the history of the Goths, including Libanios und Julian. Studien zum Verhältnis von Rhetorik und Politik (C.H. Beck, 1995) and Theoderich der Große. König der Goten, Herrscher der Römer (C.H. Beck, 2018).

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 9004414568
• ISBN 13: 9789004414563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496