Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late ancient people know about them, and how was that knowledge expressed in people's actions? Late Ancient Knowing integrates intellectual history, post-structuralist literary theory, and recent trends in cognitive science to examine the ways that historical thought-worlds both shaped individual lives and were in turn shaped by the actions of individuals. Each chapter treats its main concept as a problem both of knowledge and of practice or behavior. The result is a richly imagined description of how people of this time understood and navigated their world, from travel through the countryside and encounters with demons to philosophical medicine and the etiquette of imperial courts.

Intellectual life --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Ancient civilization --- Cultural life --- Culture --- History --- Civilization, Ancient --- Intellectual life. --- To 1500. --- 27 <08> --- 27 <08> Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 <08> Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- ancient civilization. --- ancient people. --- cognitive science. --- cultural history. --- epistemology. --- historical knowledge. --- historical thought. --- history of epistemology. --- history of science. --- history of theology. --- history of thought. --- imperial courts. --- intellectual history. --- knowing in ancient civilization. --- knowledge. --- late antiquity. --- nature of cognition. --- philosophical medicine. --- political history. --- post structuralism. --- post structuralist theory. --- problems of knowledge. --- social history. --- theories of knowledge.