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University of California Press
- Late Ancient Knowing: Explorations in Intellectual History
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late ancient people know about them, and how was that knowledge expressed in people’s actions? Late Ancient Knowing integrates intellectual history, post-structuralist literary theory, and recent trends in cognitive science to examine the ways that historical thought-worlds both shaped individual lives and were in turn shaped by the actions of individuals. Each chapter treats its main concept as a problem both of knowledge and of practice or behavior. The result is a richly imagined description of how people of this time understood and navigated their world, from travel through the countryside and encounters with demons to philosophical medicine and the etiquette of imperial courts.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part One. Finding Order
- 1. Artifact
- pp. 17-35
- 3. Language
- pp. 58-79
- 4. Medicine
- pp. 80-98
- Part Two. Putting Things in Order
- 8. Emperor
- pp. 155-174
- 10. Christianization
- pp. 197-217
- 11. Cleric
- pp. 218-239
- 12. Countryside
- pp. 240-258
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 293-294
- List of Contributors
- pp. 295-298
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520960923
Related ISBN(s)
9780520277175
MARC Record
OCLC
906699202
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-03
Language
English
Open Access
No