This book examines the importance of the past, both real and imagined, in constructing contemporary culture in the period AD 500-1000. It goes beyond 'history-w

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The last half century has seen an explosion in the study of late antiquity, which has characterised the period between the third and seventh centuries not as on

This volume reflects the huge upsurge of interest in the Near East and early Islam currently taking place among historians of late antiquity. At the same time,

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