Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Open Access Transformation of the Millennium Studies V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: The lay of the land
6. The conquests of the Arabian believers as historiographical concept and historical reality 9
7. Part II: Texts and contexts
8. Were there strategic considerations in the seventh-century Arabian conquests? 23
9. There and Back Again: Heraclius and Constantinople before the Arab conquest 47
10. The Arab conquest of the Roman Levant 63
11. Part III: Discourses
12. Das sog. Constans-Vaticinium und seine Datierung. Eschatologische Vorstellungen in der ersten Hälfte des 7. Jahrhunderts? 77
13. The influence of late antique religious polemical discourse on early Byzantine perceptions of the first Muslim victories 121
14. Part IV: Realia
15. The Muslim conquest of southern Jordan and historical memory 149
16. Coinage in Syria before and after the Arab conquest. The results and significance of new research 171
17. Part V: Reflections
18.  Argumentum Ex Silentio. Religiöse Überzeugungsstrategie in der iberischen Chronik Continuatio Byzantia-Arabica 203
19. Index