Epitomic Writing in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Title | Epitomic Writing in Late Antiquity and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Felice Sacchi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2022-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350281948 |
This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic field encompassing multifarious historical, conceptual and aesthetical concerns. The contributors gather from across the globe to present case studies of the 'summing up' of cultural artefacts, literary and artistic, in epitomic writing, and as a collective they demonstrate the importance of this genre that has been largely overlooked by scholars. The volume is divided into five sections: the first showcases the broad range of fields from which epitomic analysis can be made, from classics to postmodernism to cultural memory studies; the second focuses in on epitome as dismemberment in writing from late antiquity to the modern day; the third considers a 'productive negativity' of epitomic writings and how they are useful tools for investigating the very borders and paradoxes of language; the fourth brings this to bear on materiality; the fifth considers re-composition as a counterpart to dismemberment and problematises it. Across the volume, examples are taken from important late antique writers such as Ausonius, Clement of Alexandria, Macrobius, Nepos, Nonius Marcellus and Symphosius, and from modern authors such as Antonin Artaud, Barthes, Nabokov and Pascal Quignard. Epitomic writings about art from decorated tabulae to sarcophagi are also included, as are epitomic images themselves in the form of manuscript illustrations that sum up their text.
Epitomic Writing in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Title | Epitomic Writing in Late Antiquity and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Felice Sacchi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2022-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350281956 |
This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic field encompassing multifarious historical, conceptual and aesthetical concerns. The contributors gather from across the globe to present case studies of the 'summing up' of cultural artefacts, literary and artistic, in epitomic writing, and as a collective they demonstrate the importance of this genre that has been largely overlooked by scholars. The volume is divided into five sections: the first showcases the broad range of fields from which epitomic analysis can be made, from classics to postmodernism to cultural memory studies; the second focuses in on epitome as dismemberment in writing from late antiquity to the modern day; the third considers a 'productive negativity' of epitomic writings and how they are useful tools for investigating the very borders and paradoxes of language; the fourth brings this to bear on materiality; the fifth considers re-composition as a counterpart to dismemberment and problematises it. Across the volume, examples are taken from important late antique writers such as Ausonius, Clement of Alexandria, Macrobius, Nepos, Nonius Marcellus and Symphosius, and from modern authors such as Antonin Artaud, Barthes, Nabokov and Pascal Quignard. Epitomic writings about art from decorated tabulae to sarcophagi are also included, as are epitomic images themselves in the form of manuscript illustrations that sum up their text.
Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity
Title | Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Allen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2020-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316510131 |
Introduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.
The Power Game in Byzantium
Title | The Power Game in Byzantium PDF eBook |
Author | James Allan Evans |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2011-12-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1441140786 |
>
Late Antique Letter Collections
Title | Late Antique Letter Collections PDF eBook |
Author | Cristiana Sogno |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2019-11-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520308417 |
Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.
Wisdom on the Move
Title | Wisdom on the Move PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Ashbrook Harvey |
Publisher | Vigiliae Christianae, Suppleme |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004430693 |
Wisdom on the Move explores the complexity and flexibility of wisdom traditions in Late Antiquity and beyond. This book studies how sayings, maxims and expressions of spiritual insight travelled across linguistic and cultural borders, between different religions and milieus, and how this multicultural process reshaped these sayings and anecdotes. Wisdom on the Move takes the reader on a journey through late antique religious traditions, from manuscript fragments and folios via the monastic cradle of Egypt, across linguistic and cultural barriers, through Jewish and Biblical wisdom, monastic sayings, and Muslim interpretations. Particular attention is paid to the monastic Apophthegmata Patrum, arguably the most important genre of wisdom literature in the early Christian world. --Book cover
The Myth of Paganism
Title | The Myth of Paganism PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Shorrock |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2013-10-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1472519663 |
Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms its contribution to culture and society at large, so-called pagan or secular poetry is largely ignored, as though it has no meaningful part to play within the late antique world. The Myth of Paganism sets out to deconstruct this view of two contrasting poetic traditions and proposes in its place a new integrated model for the understanding of late antique poetry. As the book argues, the poet of Christ and the poet of the Muses were drawn together into an active, often provocative, dialogue about the relationship between Christianity and the Classical tradition and, ultimately, about the meaning of late antiquity itself. An analysis of the poetry of Nonnus of Panopolis, author of both a 'pagan' epic about Dionysus and a Christian translation of St John's Gospel, helps to illustrate this complex dialectic between pagan and Christian voices.