The Christianization of knowledge in late antiquity: intellectual and material transformations

The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions, Mark Letteney interrogates the creation of novel...

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Auteur principal: Letteney, Mark ca. 21. Jh. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: Cambridge New York, NY Cambridge University Press [2023]
Dans:Année: 2023
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Römisches Reich / Christianisation / Théologie / Livre / Savoir / Développement / Pensée / Antiquité tardive
Sujets non-standardisés:B Intellectual life Religious aspects Christianity
B Learning and scholarship Religious aspects Christianity
B Learning and scholarship (Rome) History
B Rome Intellectual life
B Religion and state (Rome)
B Church History Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
B Rome Civilization Christian influences
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Résumé:The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions, Mark Letteney interrogates the creation of novel and durable structures of knowledge across the Roman scholarly landscape, and the embedding of those changes in manuscript witnesses. Letteney explores scholarly productions ranging from juristic writings and legal compendia to theological tractates, military handbooks, historical accounts, miscellanies, grammatical treatises, and the Palestinian Talmud. He demonstrates how imperial Christianity inflected the production of truth far beyond the domain of theology - and how intellectual tools forged in the fires of doctrinal controversy shed their theological baggage and came to undergird the great intellectual productions of the Theodosian Age, and their material expressions. Letteney's volume offers new insights and a new approach to answering the perennial question: What does it mean for Rome to become Christian?
Christianizing knowledge or, a beginning of late antiquity -- A history of Christian fact finding -- A methodological revolution in fourth century theology -- A new order of books in the Theodosian age -- New bookforms -- New texts -- Christian tools in traditionalist texts -- New meanings.
Description:Includes bibliographical references
Description matérielle:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 290 Seiten)
ISBN:1009363344
Accès:Open Access.
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781009363341