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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk fransk tysk |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Serier: | Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe.
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| Online adgang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2040936 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (355 pages) |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783825373955 3825373959 3825361624 9783825361624 |