This book is focussed on the development of modern understanding of how the ways of seeing and recording the past changed in the course of adjusting to emerging social, religious and cultural developments over the period from c.250 to c.650.

Brian Croke is an Honorary Associate in Ancient History at the University of Sydney and an expert adviser in education. He is the author of over 100 articles on various aspects of ancient, Byzantine and modern history and historiography, as well as education, and a range of books including The Chronicle of Marcellinus (1995), Christian Chronicles and Byzantine History (1992), Count Marcellinus (2001), Roman Emperors in Context (2021) and Flashpoint Hagia Sophia (2022).

Introduction: Organising History and Historiography / 1. Reflecting on an Historiographical Half-Century, 1970-2020 (previously unpublished) / 2. Historiography in Late Antiquity: An Overview, originally published in History and Historians in Late Antiquity (1983), 1-12. / 3. Latin Historiography in the Barbarian Kingdoms, originally published in Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity: Fourth to Sixth Century A.D. (2003), 349-389. / 4. Historiography, originally published in The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (2012), 405-436. / 5. Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading, originally published in Byzantine Narrative (2006), 59-70. / 6. Uncovering Byzantium's Historiographical Audience, originally published in Byzantine History as Literature (2010), 23-51. / 7. Momigliano's Historiographical Contribution, c. 250-c.650 (previously unpublished) / Bibliography