To browse Academia. Recent scholarship has highlighted its dynamic nature, urging a reevaluation of its literature and cultural significance. This volume consists of contributions exploring how late antiquity was perceived as decadent, while also analyzing its texts through the lens of reception studies, which considers the impact of historical context on interpretation.
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Contents PREFACE Imagining Late Anttiquity. Musil tardo-antico ILARIA L. RAMELLI: Decadence Denounced in the Controversy over Origen: Giving Up Direct Reading of Sources and Counteractions Christliche Theologen der Spätantike über den Verfall von Moral und Glauben seit Kaiser Konstantin ZANKER: Decline and Kunstprosa: Velleius Paterculus and Eduard Norden Index locorum Index nominum et rerum The irrationalism and anxiety ascribed to a decadent late antiquity are now rather seen as a projection of the neurosis of the modernity which a careful historical reconstruction cannot.
This volume does not intend to change what seems to be now certain and has been confirmed time and again from all different angles. To be sure, it does want neither to instill the doubt that late antiquity might have possibly been a decadent age nor that men and women of that age were perceiving themselves as an epigonal society and culture. As the Introduction will discuss more in detail, this volume takes its origins from a simple statement, namely that in the past, differently than today, late antiquity was perceived precisely as decadence, and that as such it was profoundly influential within important strands of Western culture, literature and the arts.
