David Brakke, Deborah Deliyannis

Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity explores the transformation of classical culture in late antiquity by studying cultures at the borders - of empires, of social classes, of public and private spaces, of literary genres, of linguistic communities, and of the modern disciplines that study antiquity. Although canonical figures of late ancient studies appear in its pages, by looking away from the core and toward the periphery, whether spatially or intellectually, the volume offers fresh insights into how ancient patterns of thinking and creating became reconfigured into the diverse cultures of the 'medieval.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351900317
• Artikelnr.: 49354415

Autorenporträt

David Brakke is Professor of Religious Studies, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies and History, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, USA; Deborah M. Deliyannis is Assistant Professor of History and Adjunct Assistant Professor of the History of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Edward Watts is Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Classical Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, David Brakke; Part I Shared Intellectual Space: 'It
is not the custom of our Syriac language...': reconsidering the role of
translation in the Polemics of Philoxenos of Mabbug, David A. Michelson;
Negotiations with death: Ephrem's control of death in dialogue, Ellen
Muehlberger; Nature, law and human freedom in Bardasian's Book of the Laws
of the Countries, Kathleen Gibbons; Earth people in Rabbinic and Roman
discourse, Anne Kreps. Part II High and Low Cultural Negotiation: Where
high and low culture meets: the legend of the Cross, Harold Drake;
Curiositas nihil recusat: a playful defense of 'low' biography against
'high' history, Cristiana Sogno; Decline of political culture: Ammianus
Marcellinus' characterization of the reigns of Valentinian and Valens, Jan
Willem Drijvers; 'How then is it not better to prefer quiet, than the
dangers of conflict?': the imperial court as the site of shifting cultural
frontiers, Charles F. Pazdernik. Part III Literary Culture: Augustine, the
Donatists and the litterae pacifica, Jennifer Ebbeler; On the poetics of
Dioscoros of Aphrodito: the encomium on Duke Kallinikos (P. Cair. Masp. III
67315), Raymond L. Capra; Late Antique visuality: blurring the boundaries
between word and image, pagan and Christian, James A. Francis; The ant of
God: Augustine, scripture, and cultural frontiers, Gillian Clark. Part IV
Material and Popular Culture: Shining a light on shifting frontiers:
cultural uses of ceramic lamps during late Antiquity, Kate da Costa;
Sleeping arrangements and private space: a cultural approach to the
subdivision of late Antique homes, Leslie Dossey; 'Blushing in such
company?' The social status of athletes in late Antiquity, Sofie Remijsen;
Viewing the column of Arcadius at Constantinople, John Matthews; Late
Antique fora and public honor in the Western cities: case studies, Jinyu
Liu. Part V Negotiating the Imperial Frontier: Rebaptism as a ritual of
cultural integration in Vandal Africa, Eric Fourni