Prologues to ancient and medieval history
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Justin Lake
Series: Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures series -- XVII
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781442605039; 9781442607989; 9781442605046; 9781442605053
Subjects: Textbooks; Ancient History; Geschichtsschreibung; Middle Ages; Prolog
Description: Sketches of eighty historians with translated excerpts from eighty eight of their works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Chapter One: Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE); title: 1. Hecataeus of Miletus, Genealogies; title: 2. Herodotus, Histories; title: 3. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War; title: 4. Polybius, Histories; title: 5. Diodorus Siculus, Library; title: 6. Aulus Hirtius, Preface to Book 8 of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War; title: 7. Sallust, Catiline's War; title: 8. Sallust, The Jugurthine War; title: 9. Livy, History of Rome; title: 10. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities; title: 11. Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War; title: 12. Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews; title: 13. Tacitus, Agricola; title: 14. Tacitus, Histories; title: 15. Tacitus, Annals; title: 16. Florus, Epitome of Roman History; title: 17. Justin, Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus; title: 18. Herodian, History of the Empire after Marcus; title: 19. Jerome, Chronicle; title: 20. Eunapius of Sardis, History after Dexippus; title: 21. Sulpicius Severus, Life of Saint Martin; title: 22. Rufinus, Ecclesiastical History; title: 23. Orosius, Seven Books of History against the Pagans; title: Chapter Two: The Early Middle Ages (500-900 CE); title: 24. Jordanes, On the Summary of the Eras, and the Origin and Deeds of the Romans (Romana); title: 25. Jordanes, On the Origins and Deeds of the Goths (Getica); title: 26. Procopius, Wars; title: 27. Procopius, Secret History; title: 28. Agathias, Histories; title: 29. Gildas, On the Destruction and Conquest of Britain; title: 30. Gregory of Tours, Histories; title: 31. Fredegar, Chronicle; title: 32. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People; title: 33. Paul the Deacon, Roman History; title: 34. Einhard, Life of Charlemagne; title: 35. Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronicle; title: 36. The Astronomer, Life of Emperor Louis; title: 37. Nithard, Histories; title: 38. Agnellus of Ravenna, The Book of the Bishops of the Church of Ravenna; title: 39. Erchempert, History of the Lombards of Benevento; title: Chapter Three: The Central Middle Ages (900-1100); title: 40. Regino of Prüm, Chronicle; title: 41. Odo of Cluny, Life of Saint Gerald of Aurillac; title: 42. Flodoard, History of the Church of Rheims; title: 43. Liudprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; title: 44. Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, The Deeds of Otto; title: 45. Widukind of Corvey, Saxon History; title: 46. Heriger of Lobbes, Life of Remaclus/Deeds of the Bishops of Liège; title: 47. Letaldus of Micy, The Miracles of Saint Maximin; title: 48. Letaldus of Micy, Life of Saint Julian; title: 49. Richer of Saint-Rémi, Histories; title: 50. Aimoin of Fleury, History of the Franks; title: 51. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Deeds of the Normans; title: 52. Adalbold of Utrecht, Life of Emperor Henry II; title: 53. Raoul Glaber, Histories; title: 54. Wipo, Life of Emperor Conrad II; title: 55. William of Jumièges, Deeds of the Norman Dukes; title: 56. Lampert of Hersfeld, The Book of the Foundation of the Church of Hersfeld; title: 57. Adam of Bremen, Deeds of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen; title: 58. Geoffrey Malaterra, On the Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily, and of Duke Robert Guiscard, his Brother.; title: Chapter Four: The High and Late Middle Ages (1100-1400); title: 59. Fulcher of Chartes, History of the Expedition to Jerusalem; title: 60. Guibert of Nogent, The Deeds of God through the Franks; title: 61. Hugh of Fleury, Ecclesiastical History; title: 62. Gallus Anonymus, Chronicles and Deeds of the Dukes and Princes of the Poles; title: 63. Eadmer, History of Recent Events in England; title: 64. Cosmas of Prague, Chronicle of the Bohemians; title: 65. Galbert of Bruges, On the Murder, Betrayal, and Death of the Glorious Count Charles of Flanders; title: 66. William of Malmesbury, Deeds of the English Kings; title: 67. Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain; title: 68. Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History; title: 69. Robert of Torigni, Chronicle; title: 70. Alfred of Beverley, Annals, or History of the Deeds of the Kings of Britain; title: 71. Otto of Freising, Chronicle, or History of the Two Cities; title: 72. Otto of Freising and Rahewin, Deeds of Emperor Frederick I; title: 73. Henry of Huntingdon, History of the English People; title: 74. John of Salisbury, Memoirs of the Papal Court; title: 75. Helmold of Bosau, Slavic Chronicle; title: 76. William of Tyre, Chronicle; title: 77. Gerald of Wales, The Topography of Ireland; title: 78. Gerald of Wales, The Journey through Wales; title: 79. Ralph de Diceto, Abbreviations of Chronicles; title: 80. William of Newburgh, History of English Affairs; title: 81. Gervase of Canterbury, Chronicle; title: 82. Niketas Choniates, History; title: 83. Saxo Grammaticus, History of the Danes; title: 84. Roger of Wendover, Flowers of History; title: 85. Nicholas Trevet, Annals of Six Kings of England; title: 86. Ranulph Higden, Polychronicon; title: 87. Anonymous, The Eulogy of Histories; title: 88. Jean Froissart, Chronicle.