Mark Letteney

The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity

Intellectual and Material Transformations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Bringing together ancient scholarly works and the manuscripts which carry them, this study presents a new way to answer the old question "What does it mean for Rome to become Christian?". It demonstrates that imperial Christianity changed not just what people believe, but how people think"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781009363389
• ISBN-10: 1009363387
• Artikelnr.: 67778840

Autorenporträt

Mark Letteney holds a PhD from Princeton University and is a fellow of both the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He is co-author, with Matthew D. C. Larsen, of Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration (University of California Press, forthcoming 2024).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Christianizing knowledge, or beginning of Late Antiquity
Part I. New readers: 2. A history of Christian fact finding
3. A methodological revolution in fourth-century theology
4. A new order of books in the Theodosian age
Part II. New texts: 5. New bookforms
6. New texts
7. Christian tools in traditionalist texts
8. New meanings.