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Title Late ancient knowing : explorations in intellectual history / edited by Catherine M. Chin and Moulie Vidas
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 306 pages)
Contents Introduction / Catherine M. Chin and Moulie Vidas -- Artifact / Mira Balberg -- Animal / Beth Berkowitz -- Language / Jeremy Schott -- Medicine / Heidi Marx-Wolf -- Cosmos / Catherine M. Chin -- Angel / Ellen Muehlberger -- God / Lewis Ayres -- Emperor / Matthew Canepa -- Ordo / Michael Kulikowski -- Christianization / Edward Watts -- Cleric / Kristina Sessa -- Countryside / Cam Grey -- Demon / Dayna Kalleres -- Afterword / Maud Gleason
Summary "Late Ancient Knowing explores how people in late antiquity went about knowing their world and how this knowing shaped late ancient lives. Each essay is dedicated to a single concept--'Animal, ' 'Demon, ' 'Countryside, ' 'Christianization, ' 'God'--studying the ways in which individuals and societies in this period created and interacted with visible and invisible realities. Rather than narrating late ancient history based on facts defensible in modern historical terms, these essays attempt to create histories based on what are now considered late ancient fictions, the now-discarded paradigms of late ancient thought"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Civilization, Ancient.
Intellectual life -- History -- To 1500
Civilization, Classical.
15.51 Antiquity.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Civilization, Classical
Civilization, Ancient
Intellectual life
Spätantike
Wissen
Geistesgeschichte
Genre/Form History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Chin, Catherine M., 1972- editor.
Vidas, Moulie, 1983- editor.
ISBN 9780520960923
0520960920