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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. Neue Folge, 2. Reihe ; v. 140. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46064291*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (355 páginas) |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783825373955 |
