Late Antique Letter Collections

Author : Cristiana Sogno,Bradley K. Storin,Edward J. Watts
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520308411

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Late Antique Letter Collections by Cristiana Sogno,Bradley K. Storin,Edward J. Watts Pdf

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.

Author : Pauline Allen,Bronwen Neil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316510131

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Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity by Pauline Allen,Bronwen Neil Pdf

Introduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.

Author : Bronwen Neil,Pauline Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107091863

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Collecting Early Christian Letters from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity by Bronwen Neil,Pauline Allen Pdf

The first multi-authored study of New Testament and late antique letter collections, crossing the traditional divide between these disciplines.

Author : Scott McGill,Edward J. Watts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118830369

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A Companion to Late Antique Literature by Scott McGill,Edward J. Watts Pdf

Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era in literary history from the mid-third century to the early seventh century. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages. Comprehensive in scope, this important volume presents new research, methodologies, and significant debates in the field. The Companion explores the histories, forms, features, audiences, and uses of the literature of the period. This authoritative text: Provides an inclusive overview of late antique literature Offers the widest survey to date of the literary traditions and forms of the period, including those in several languages other than Greek and Latin Presents the most current research and new methodologies in the field Contains contributions from an international group of contributors Written for students and scholars of late antiquity, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative review of the literature from the era.

Author : Gregory of Nazianzus,Bradley K. Storin
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520304109

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Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection by Gregory of Nazianzus,Bradley K. Storin Pdf

Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as Gregory the Theologian, lived an illustrious life as an orator, poet, priest, and bishop. Until his death, he wrote scores of letters to friends and colleagues, clergy members and philosophers, teachers of rhetoric and literature, and high-ranking officials at the provincial and imperial levels, many of which are preserved in his self-designed letter collection. Here, for the first time in English, Bradley K. Storin has translated the complete collection, offering readers a fresh view on Gregory’s life, social and cultural engagement, leadership in the church, and literary talents. Accompanying the translation are an introduction, a prosopography, and annotations that situate Gregory’s letters in their biographical, literary, and historical contexts. This translation is an essential resource for scholars and students of late antiquity and early Christianity.

Author : Scott McGill,Edward J. Watts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118830352

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A Companion to Late Antique Literature by Scott McGill,Edward J. Watts Pdf

Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era in literary history from the mid-third century to the early seventh century. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages. Comprehensive in scope, this important volume presents new research, methodologies, and significant debates in the field. The Companion explores the histories, forms, features, audiences, and uses of the literature of the period. This authoritative text: Provides an inclusive overview of late antique literature Offers the widest survey to date of the literary traditions and forms of the period, including those in several languages other than Greek and Latin Presents the most current research and new methodologies in the field Contains contributions from an international group of contributors Written for students and scholars of late antiquity, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative review of the literature from the era.

Author : Ruth Morello,A. D. Morrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191525353

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Ancient Letters by Ruth Morello,A. D. Morrison Pdf

The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri to imperial rescripts, New Testament Epistles, fictional or pseudepigraphical letters and a wealth of missives on almost every conceivable subject. They offer us a unique insight into ancient practices in the fields of politics, literature, philosophy, medicine and many other areas. This collection presents a series of case studies in ancient letters, asking how each letter writer manipulates the epistolary tradition, why he chose the letter form over any other, and what effect the publication of volumes of collected letters might have had upon a reader's engagement with epistolary works. This volume is the first of its kind on ancient letters in any language, and it brings together both well-established and promising young scholars currently working in the fields of ancient literature, history, philosophy and medicine to engage in a shared debate about this most adaptable and 'interdisciplinary' of genres.

Author : Scott McGill,Edward J. Watts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118830345

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A Companion to Late Antique Literature by Scott McGill,Edward J. Watts Pdf

Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era in literary history from the mid-third century to the early seventh century. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages. Comprehensive in scope, this important volume presents new research, methodologies, and significant debates in the field. The Companion explores the histories, forms, features, audiences, and uses of the literature of the period. This authoritative text: Provides an inclusive overview of late antique literature Offers the widest survey to date of the literary traditions and forms of the period, including those in several languages other than Greek and Latin Presents the most current research and new methodologies in the field Contains contributions from an international group of contributors Written for students and scholars of late antiquity, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative review of the literature from the era.

Author : Suzanne L. Abram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000042733356

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Latin Letters and Their Commonplaces in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Suzanne L. Abram Pdf

Author : Andrew Cain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317019534

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The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity by Andrew Cain Pdf

Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion. The transformations that occurred in this pivotal era moved the ancient world into the Middle Ages and forever changed the way that religion was practiced. The twenty eight studies in this volume explore this shift using evidence ranging from Latin poetic texts, to Syriac letter collections, to the iconography of Roman churches and Merowingian mortuary goods. They range in chronology from the late third through the early seventh centuries AD and apply varied theories and approaches. All converge around the notion that religion is fundamentally a discourse of power and that power in Late Antiquity was especially charged with the force of religion. The articles are divided into eight sections which examine the power of religion in literature, theurgical power over the divine, emperors and the deployment of religious power, limitations on the power of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, the use of the cross as a symbol of power, Rome and its transformation as a center of power, the power of religion in the barbarian west, and religious power in the communities of the east. This kaleidoscope of perspectives creates a richly illuminating volume that add a new social and political dimension to current debates about religion in Late Antiquity.

Author : Duane Reed Stuart
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0819601934

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Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography by Duane Reed Stuart Pdf

Author : Bradley K. Storin
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520304130

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Self-Portrait in Three Colors by Bradley K. Storin Pdf

A seminal figure in late antique Christianity and Christian orthodoxy, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus published a collection of more than 240 letters. Whereas these letters have often been cast aside as readers turn to his theological orations or autobiographical poetry for insight into his life, thought, and times, Self-Portrait in Three Colors focuses squarely on them, building a provocative case that the finalized collection constitutes not an epistolary archive but an autobiography in epistolary form—a single text composed to secure his status among provincial contemporaries and later generations. Shedding light on late-ancient letter writing, fourth-century Christian intelligentsia, Christianity and classical culture, and the Christianization of Roman society, these letters offer a fascinating and unique view of Gregory’s life, engagement with literary culture, and leadership in the church. As a single unit, this autobiographical epistolary collection proved a powerful tool in Gregory’s attempts to govern the contours of his authorial image as well as his provincial and ecclesiastical legacy.

Author : Sofie Remijsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107050785

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The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity by Sofie Remijsen Pdf

A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.

Author : Tomas Hägg,Philip Rousseau,Christian Høgel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520223888

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Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity by Tomas Hägg,Philip Rousseau,Christian Høgel Pdf

How classical narrative models were adapted as early Christian culture took shape and developed.

Author : Pauline Allen,Bronwen Neil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004254824

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Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE) by Pauline Allen,Bronwen Neil Pdf

Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil investigate crisis management as conducted by the increasingly important episcopal class in the 5th and 6th centuries. Their basic source is the neglected corpus of bishops’ letters in Greek and Latin, the letter being the most significant mode of communication and information-transfer in the period from 410 to 590 CE. The volume brings together into a wider setting a wealth of previous international research on episcopal strategies for dealing with crises of various kinds. Six broad categories of crisis are identified and analysed: population displacement, natural disasters, religious disputes and religious violence, social abuses and the breakdown of the structures of dependence. Individual case-studies of episcopal management are provided for each of these categories. This is the first comprehensive treatment of crisis management in the late-antique world, and the first survey of episcopal letter-writing across the later Roman empire.