Décadence :: "Decline and Fall" or "Other Antiquity"?.

No scholar today would describe late antiquity as an age of "decline and fall", as Gibbon did; instead, to use Marrou's term, it is seen as an "other antiquity", which deserves to be investigated on its own terms. Yet the idea of a decadent period, accompanied by a fascinati...

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1. Verfasser: Formisano, Marco
Weitere Verfasser: Fuhrer, Therese, Stock, Anna-Lena
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
French
German
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe.
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Zusammenfassung:No scholar today would describe late antiquity as an age of "decline and fall", as Gibbon did; instead, to use Marrou's term, it is seen as an "other antiquity", which deserves to be investigated on its own terms. Yet the idea of a decadent period, accompanied by a fascination for the image of antiquity on the wane, continues to live in scholarly minds, as is suggested, after all, by the recurring insistence on the point that late antiquity was not a period of decline. This collection of papers engages in a productive way with the fascination exerted by the concept of an era in decline and a l.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (355 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9783825373955
3825373959

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