Original research article
Palamedes

An Attempt at a New Typology of the Lost Latin Historiography of the Late Empire

2019/2020, TOM 13

Paweł Janiszewski

0000-0002-3984-8688

University of Warsaw, Faculty of History, Department of Ancient History

Publication date

12.09.2026

Publishing model

open access

License type

CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

Humanities

Discipline

history

Language of publication

English

Downloads

PDF 161 KB

Article

Number of views:6

Number of downloads:4

Crossref citations:0

Altmetric score:0

Abstract

The present paper proposes a new classification of the lost Latin historiography of the third to fifth centuries. Its chief objective is to take into account the entirety of the evidence for the lost historical writing in Latin in this period, including the material that has to date that has been marginalised or has escaped scholarly attention altogether. Moreover, the new classification yields a significant amount of new information on late ancient Latin historiography.

Keywords:

late antiquity,Latin lost historiography,new typology

Bibliography

Beck H., Walter U. 2001–2004: Die frühen römischen Historiker, vols. I – II, Darmstadt.

Bleckmann, B. 2015: ‘Last Pagans, source criticism and historiography of the Late Antiquity’, Millennium 12, 103–115.

Chassignet, M. 1996–2004: L’annalistique romaine, vols. I – III, Paris.

Cornell, T.J. (ed.) 2013: The Fragments of the Roman Historians, vols. I – III, Oxford (= FRHist).

MacKitterick, R. 1994: ‘The audience for Latin historiography in the early middle ages: text transmission and manuscript dissemination’, in A. Scherer, F. Scheibelreiter (eds), Historiographie im früher Mittelalter, Wien, 96–114.

Peter, H. 1906–1914 (repr. 1967, 1993): Historicorum Romanorum Reliquiae, vols. I – II, Stuttgart.

Schepens, G. 1997: ‘Jacoby’s FGrHist: problems, methods, prospects’, in G.W. Most (ed.), Aporemata. Kritische Studien zur Philologiegeschichte, vol. I. Collecting Fragments / Fragmente sammeln, Göttingen, 144–172.

Schepens, G (ed.) 1999: F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Continued, Part Four. Biography and Antiquarian Literature, (Fasc. 7. Imperial and Undated Authors), Leiden, Boston, Köln.

Van Hoof, L., Van Nuffelen, P. 2020a: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris. An Inventory of Late Antique Historiography (A.D. 300–800), Edited by P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof, Turnhout (= CHAP).

Van Hoof, L., Van Nuffelen, P. 2020b: The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620): Edition, Translation and Commentary, Cambridge (= FLHist).

Similar publications