Shifting genres in late antiquity / edited by Geoffrey Greatrex, Hugh Elton ; with the assistance of Lucas McMahon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greatrex, Geoffrey, editor.

Elton, Hugh, editor.

McMahon, Lucas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Literary form--History--To 1500.

Literary form.

History.

Art genres--History--To 1500.

Art genres.

Social change--History--To 1500.

Social change.

Christianity and literature--History--To 1500.

Christianity and literature.

Intellectual life.

Rome--Intellectual life.

Rome.

Mediterranean Region--Intellectual life.

Mediterranean Region.

Rome--Antiquities.

Rome (Empire).

Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 341 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2015]

Summary:

"Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity examines the transformations that took place in a wide range of genres, both literary and non-literary, in this dynamic period. The Christianisation of the Roman empire and the successor kingdoms had a profound impact on the evolution of Greek and Roman literature, and many aspects of this are discussed in this volume--the composition of church history, the collection of papal letters, heresiology, homiletics and apologetic. Contributors discuss authors such as John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, Jerome, Liberatus of Carthage, Victor of Vita, and Epiphanius of Salamis as well as the Collectio Avellana. Secular literature too, however, underwent important changes, notably in Constantinople in the sixth century. Several chapters accordingly reassess the work of Procopius of Caesarea and literature of this period; attention is also given to the evolution of the chronicle genre. Technical writing, such as military manuals and legal texts, are the focus of other chapters; further genres considered include monody, epigraphy and epistolography. Changes in visual representation are also considered in chapters devoted to diptychs, monuments and coins"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Homiletics and disputation

Medicine in transition : Christian adaptation in the later fourth-century East / Wendy Mayer

Le De Obitu Theodosii dʹAmbroise (395) : une refonte des genres littéraires dans le creuset du sermon politique / Tiphaine Moreau

Jeromeʹs De viris illustribus and new genres for Christian disputation in late antiquity / Colin Whiting

The transformation of heresiology in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus / Young Richard Kim

Part II. Ecclesiastical genres

Adapter le genre du bréviaire plutôt quʹécrire une histoire ecclésiastique? Enquête sur le choix historiographique de Liberatus de Carthage / Philippe Blaudeau

The emergence of papal decretals : the evidence of Zosimus of Rome / Geoffrey D. Dunn

Collectio Avellana and the unspoken Ostrogoths : historical reconstruction in the sixth century / Dana Iuliana Viezure

Éléments apologétiques chez Victor de Vita : exemple dʹun genre littéraire en transition / Éric Fournier

Diabolical motivations : the devil in ecclesiastical histories from Eusebius to Evagrius / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe

Part III. Visual genres

Producing distinction : aristocratic and imperial representation in the Constantinian age / Mariana Bodnaruk

Declaring victory, concealing defeat? Continuity and change in late Roman imperial coinage, c. AD 378-425 / Christopher Doyle

The importance of being Stilicho : diptychs as a genre / Alice Christ

Part IV. Procopius and literature in the sixth-century Eastern Empire

Power, taste and the outsider : Procopius and the buildings revisited / Federico Montinaro

Belisariusʹ second occupation of Rome and Periclesʹ last speech / Charles F. Pazdernik

Technical writing, genre and aesthetic in Procopius / Elodie Turquois

A Justinianic debate across genres on the state of the Roman Republic / Marion Kruse

Part V. Technical genres

The genre and purpose of military manuals in late antiquity / Conor Whately

Les contrats de travail dans lʹantiquité Tardive : évolution du droit, évolution dʹun genre? / Christel Freu

Natio, gens, provincialis, and civis : geographical representation of personal identity in late antiquity / Ralph Mathisen

Part VI. Other literary genres

The rhetoric of Varietas and epistolary encyclopedism in the Variae of Cassiodorus / Shane Bjornlie

Byzantine world chronicles : identities of genre / Sergei Mariev

Himerius and the personalization of the monody / Edward Watts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472443489

1472443489

OCLC:

890807513