Late ancient knowing

Late ancient knowing: explorations in intellectual history

by Chin, Catherine M. Vidas, Moulie

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"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 …

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  • Full title :Late ancient knowing : explorations in intellectual history / edited by Catherine M. Chin and Moulie Vidas.

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"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.

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  • Publication Date:©2015

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  • Description:vi, 306 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780520277175, 0520277171
  • oclc:ocn889941257
  • LC Classification:CB311
  • Dewey Decimal:930

Table of 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 S. Kalleres -- Afterword / Maud W. Gleason.

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Subjects

15.51 Antiquity Civilisation ancienne Civilization, Ancient Civilization, Classical Geistesgeschichte History Intellectual life Intellectual life -- History -- To 1500 Spätantike To 1500 Všetaty

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Chin, Catherine M. Vidas, Moulie

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