The new late antiquity
Subtitle: a gallery of intellectual portraits
By: edited by Clifford Ando, Marco Formisano
Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. 2. Reihe -- Band 162; The library of the other antiquity; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- n.F., 2. Reihe, Bd. 162.; Library of the other antiquity
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: mul
Number of pages: 657
ISBN-13: 9783825347215
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Ancient History
Description: The rediscovery and reconstruction of late antiquity as an independent era with its own character represent a relatively recent product of historiographical debate, but the roots of this process are to be found already in the work of scholars of the late 19th century. Above all the idea of an age of decline and fall which marked late antiquity since Edward Gibbon's colossal 'History' has been gradually abandoned. Today, late antique studies are not only flourishing but represent perhaps one of most exciting fields within classical studies. For this volume, contemporary, internationally recognized scholars of late antiquity working in a range of academic contexts, intellectual styles, and languages (English, German, French, Italian) were invited to sketch intellectual portraits of key figures whose work decisively contributed to the emergence of what the editors of this volume call "the new late antiquity". --back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions variously in English, French, German, and Italian.