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Although the paradoxical reality of warfare may elude definition,
since antiquity war has been a constitutive element of Western
culture; seen from a historical perspective, it gives access to a
broad array of tensions between various modelsof knowledge and
differentkinds of tradition. The essays in this volume approach the
phenomenon of war from antiquity to Clausewitz from the perspective
of a variety of disciplines. Particular attention is given to
texts, images, and their interaction.
The relationship between theory and practice, in other words
between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual
application, is one of the most fascinating issues in the history
and theory of science. Yet this aspect has often been taken for
granted and never explored in depth. The essays contained in this
volume provide a complex and nuanced discussion of this
relationship as it emerges in ancient Greek and Roman culture in a
number of fields, such as agriculture, architecture, the art of
love, astronomy, ethics, mechanics, medicine, pharmacology. The
main focus is on the textuality of processes of the transmission of
knowledge and its application in various fields. Given that a text
always contains complex and destabilising aspects that cannot be
reduced to the specific subject matter it discusses, to what extent
can and do ancient texts support extra-textual applicability?
This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining
textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic
field encompassing multifarious historical, conceptual and
aesthetical concerns. The contributors gather from across the globe
to present case studies of the 'summing up' of cultural artefacts,
literary and artistic, in epitomic writing, and as a collective
they demonstrate the importance of this genre that has been largely
overlooked by scholars. The volume is divided into five sections:
the first showcases the broad range of fields from which epitomic
analysis can be made, from classics to postmodernism to cultural
memory studies; the second focuses in on epitome as dismemberment
in writing from late antiquity to the modern day; the third
considers a 'productive negativity' of epitomic writings and how
they are useful tools for investigating the very borders and
paradoxes of language; the fourth brings this to bear on
materiality; the fifth considers re-composition as a counterpart to
dismemberment and problematises it. Across the volume, examples are
taken from important late antique writers such as Ausonius, Clement
of Alexandria, Macrobius, Nepos, Nonius Marcellus and Symphosius,
and from modern authors such as Antonin Artaud, Barthes, Nabokov
and Pascal Quignard. Epitomic writings about art from decorated
tabulae to sarcophagi are also included, as are epitomic images
themselves in the form of manuscript illustrations that sum up
their text.
This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining
textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic
field encompassing multifarious historical, conceptual and
aesthetical concerns. The contributors gather from across the globe
to present case studies of the 'summing up' of cultural artefacts,
literary and artistic, in epitomic writing, and as a collective
they demonstrate the importance of this genre that has been largely
overlooked by scholars. The volume is divided into five sections:
the first showcases the broad range of fields from which epitomic
analysis can be made, from classics to postmodernism to cultural
memory studies; the second focuses in on epitome as dismemberment
in writing from late antiquity to the modern day; the third
considers a 'productive negativity' of epitomic writings and how
they are useful tools for investigating the very borders and
paradoxes of language; the fourth brings this to bear on
materiality; the fifth considers re-composition as a counterpart to
dismemberment and problematises it. Across the volume, examples are
taken from important late antique writers such as Ausonius, Clement
of Alexandria, Macrobius, Nepos, Nonius Marcellus and Symphosius,
and from modern authors such as Antonin Artaud, Barthes, Nabokov
and Pascal Quignard. Epitomic writings about art from decorated
tabulae to sarcophagi are also included, as are epitomic images
themselves in the form of manuscript illustrations that sum up
their text.
Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a
young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her
spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years
after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and
supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called
Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and
enigmatic works of antiquity, which the present volume examines
from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological,
historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints
follow upon a newly edited text and English translation (by Joseph
Farrell and Craig Williams). This innovative treatment by a number
of distinguished scholars not only complements its unique subject,
but constitutes a kind of laboratory of new approaches to ancient
texts.
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-siecle
atmosphere, evoked in the very title 'Decadence'. 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.
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