Late Ancient Knowing
Subtitle: Explorations in Intellectual History
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 02, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780520277175
Description: "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.
Notes: Source title: Late Ancient Knowing: Explorations in Intellectual History