Late Ancient Knowing - Explorations in Intellectual History

"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.

Summary

what did late ancient people know about them, and how was that knowledge expressed in people's actions? This book explores the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine M. Vidas Chin, Catherine Michael Vidas Chin
• Assisted by: Catherine M. Chin (Editor), Catherine Michael Chin (Editor), Moulie Vidas (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2015
• EAN: 9780520277175
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27717-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE