Lucy Grig

Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400-550

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Sheds fresh light on the transformation of the ancient world, focusing on the social, cultural and religious history of late antique southern Gaul and employing the lens of popular culture"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491440
• ISBN-10: 1108491448
• Artikelnr.: 69433852

Autorenporträt

LUCY GRIG is a Senior Lecturer in Roman History in the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on the social, cultural and religious history of Late Antiquity, and is the editor of Popular Culture in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2017) and the author of Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: popular culture and the study of (late) ancient history
2. Urban contexts for popular culture in an age of transformation
3. Popular culture, society and economy: the countryside in transition in late antiquity
4. Christianizing popular culture: the view 'from the pulpit'
5. An alternative view: lived religion as popular culture
6. The Kalends of January: the persistence of popular culture
7. Conclusions: popular culture and the end of antiquity?