The Library of The Other Antiquity / Décadence
“Decline and Fall” or “Other Antiquity”?
In Co-op. with:
Anna-Lena Stock
1. Edition, 2014
348 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-6162-4
Product: Book
Edition: Hardcover
Subject: Klassische Philologie
Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Volume No.: 140
Available: 29.09.2014
Keywords:
Dekadenz, Antikenrezeption, Spätantike, Flaubert, Gustave, Arendt, Hannah, Patristik, Kulturgeschichte /Antike, Augustinus, Aurelius, Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius, Sidonius Apollinaris, Claudius Claudianus, Mehmel, Friedrich, Theologie /Spätantike
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 literary and artistic fin-de-siècle atmosphere, evoked in the very title ‘Décadence’. Whether this fascination is seen as a question of the history of reception or as an ongoing phenomenon, it rarely emerges to the surface of scholarly discussions. This volume invites us to reconsider these questions by making decadent late antiquity a paradigm of interpretation in connection with a conscious and sophisticated re-use of the history of reception.
Contrib. by: Marco Formisano, Therese Fuhrer, Gillian Clark, Helmut Pfeiffer, Carlo Santini, Karin Schlapbach, Michael Roberts, Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, Danuta Shanzer, Stephen Hinds, Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed, Jan Stenger, Étienne Wolff, Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Christoph Markschies, Andreas T. Zanker
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Herbert Bannert in: Wiener Studien, 133.2 (2020), 88-92, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1553/wst133_rezs45
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Sigrid Albert in: Vox Latina, Tom. 55 (2019), Fasc. 215, 142-144
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Ian Fielding in: International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 25.1 (2018), 93-95
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Judith Hindermann in: The Classical Review, 66.1 (2016), 153f
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Sara Fascione in: Bollettino di Studi Latini, anno XLV (2015), fasc. II, 785ff
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