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Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary
approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers
in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a
historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as
part of the subject-matter of a new literary history. After
preliminary essays marking out the field, the volume is organized
in three sections by authors, forms of discourse, and disciplines.
Released from the theological discipline of patristics, the
writings of the church fathers have in recent decades become the
common property of students of early Christianity, late antiquity
and the classical tradition. In principle, they are now no more
(nor less) than sources, documents and literary texts like others
from their period and milieux. Yet when replaced in the longer
history of Western textual and literary practices, the collective
literary oeuvre of Latin clerics, monks and ascetic freelances of
the Later Roman Empire may still seem to occupy a place of
decisive, if not canonical importance. How does one now account for
the abiding formativeness of Latin Christian writing of the fourth
and fifth centuries CE? What demands does such writing lay on a
modern history of literature? These are the questions asked here,
in view of a new literary history of patristic texts.
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