Late ancient knowing : explorations in intellectual history /
"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...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
2015
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 306 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520960923 0520960920 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
