Late Ancient Knowing - Explorations in Intellectual History

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-520-27717-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late ancient people know about them, and how was that knowledge expressed in people’s actions? Late Ancient Knowing integrates intellectual history, post-structuralist literary theory, and recent trends in cognitive science to examine the ways that historical thought-worlds both shaped individual lives and were in turn shaped by the actions of individuals. Each chapter treats its main concept as a problem both of knowledge and of practice or behavior. The result is a richly imagined description of how people of this time understood and navigated their world, from travel through the countryside and encounters with demons to philosophical medicine and the etiquette of imperial courts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chin, Catherine M.

Chin, Catherine Michael

Vidas, Moulie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Catherine M. Chin and Moulie Vidas)

PART ONE. FINDING ORDER
1. Artifact (Mira Balberg)
2. Animal (Beth Berkowitz)
3. Language (Jeremy Schott)
4. Medicine (Heidi Marx-Wolf)
5. Cosmos (Catherine M. Chin)
6. Angel (Ellen Muehlberger)
7. God (Lewis Ayres)

PART TWO. PUTTING THINGS IN ORDER
8. Emperor (Matthew Canepa)
9. Ordo (Michael Kulikowski)
10. Christianization (Edward Watts)
11. Cleric (Kristina Sessa)
12. Countryside (Cam Grey)
13. Demon (Dayna Kalleres)
Afterword (Maud Gleason)

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine M. Chin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis and author of Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World.

Moulie Vidas is Assistant Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Princeton University and author of Tradition and the Formation of the Talmud.