Literary Territories introudces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage to Roman mapmaking and the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories …
'Literary Territories' argues that the literature of Late Antiquity shared a defining aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical 'inhabited world', the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge
'Literary Territories' argues that the literature of Late Antiquity shared a defining aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical 'inhabited world', the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge.
Literary Territories introudces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage to Roman mapmaking and the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories …
'Literary Territories' argues that the literature of Late Antiquity shared a defining aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical 'inhabited world', the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge.
"Recognized as a saint by both Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians alike, Jacob of Sarug (d. 521) produced many narrative poems that have rarely been translated into English. Of his reported 760 metrical homilies, only about half survive. Part of a series of fascicles c…
