John Lydus and the Roman Past: Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian by Michael Maas

John Lydus and the Roman Past: Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian

Michael Maas

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John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. Maas show that control of classical inheritance was politically co...

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