Transformations of Late Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformations of Late Antiquity write by Manolis Papoutsakis. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Transformations of Late Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on a simple dynamic: the taking in hand of a heritage, the variety of changes induced within it, and the handing on of that legacy to new generations. Our contributors suggest, from different standpoints, that this dynamic represented the essence of 'late antiquity'. As Roman society, and the societies by which it was immediately bounded, continued to develop, through to the late sixth and early seventh centuries, the interplay between what needed to be treasured and what needed to be explored became increasingly self-conscious, versatile, and enriched. By the time formerly alien peoples had established their 'post-classical' polities, and Islam began to stir in the East, the novelties were more clearly seen, if not always welcomed; and one witnesses a stronger will to maintain the momentum of change, of a forward reach. At the same time, those in a position to play now the role of heirs were well able to appreciate how suited to their needs the 'Roman' past might be, but how, by taking it up in their turn, they were more securely defined and yet more creatively advantaged. 'Transformation' is a notion apposite to essays in honour of Peter Brown. 'The transformation of the classical heritage' is a theme to which he has devoted, and continues to devote, much energy. All the essays here in some way explore this notion of transformation; the late antique ability to turn the past to new uses, and to set its wealth of principle and insight to work in new settings. To begin, there is the very notion of what it meant to be 'Roman', and how that notion changed. Subsequent chapters suggest ways in which fundamental characteristics of Roman society were given new form, not least under the impact of a Christian polity. Augustine, naturally, finds his place; and here the emphasis is on the unfettered stance that he took in the face of more broadly held convictions - on miracles, for example, and the errors of the pagan past. The discussion then moves on to
Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity
Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity write by Ian Fielding. This book was released on 2017-10-19. Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book highlights Ovid's influence on important later Latin authors writing from the fourth to the sixth centuries in Europe and Africa.
The End of Sacrifice
The End of Sacrifice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Sacrifice write by Susan Emanuel. This book was released on 2011-08-22. The End of Sacrifice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The religious transformations that marked late antiquity represent an enigma that has challenged some of the West's greatest thinkers. But, according to Guy Stroumsa, the oppositions between paganism and Christianity that characterize prevailing theories have endured for too long. Instead of describing this epochal change as an evolution within ...
From Shame to Sin
From Shame to Sin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Shame to Sin write by Kyle Harper. This book was released on 2013-06-01. From Shame to Sin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.
Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World
Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World write by Professor Danuta Shanzer. This book was released on 2013-07-28. Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the Mediterranean world. The nature of these transformations was considered at the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 2005, and this volume presents an updated selection of the papers given on that occasion, complemented with a few others,. These 25 studies do much to break down old stereotypes about the cultural and social segregation of Roman and barbarian populations, and demonstrate that, contrary to the past orthodoxy, Romans and barbarians interacted in a multitude of ways, and it was not just barbarians who experienced "ethnogenesis" or cultural assimilation. The same Romans who disparaged barbarian behavior also adopted aspects of it in their everyday lives, providing graphic examples of the ambiguity and negotiation that characterized the integration of Romans and barbarians, a process that altered the concepts of identity of both populations. The resultant late antique polyethnic cultural world, with cultural frontiers between Romans and barbarians that became increasingly permeable in both directions, does much to help explain how the barbarian settlement of the west was accomplished with much less disruption than there might have been, and how barbarian populations were integrated seamlessly into the old Roman world.
