Learning Cities In Late Antiquity

Author : Jan R. Stenger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351578308
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Cities in Late Antiquity written by Jan R. Stenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education in the Graeco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. Yet the complex ways in which pedagogical theory and practice intersected with their local environments has not been much explored in recent scholarship. Learning Cities in Late Antiquity suggests a new explanatory model that helps to understand better how conditions in the cities shaped learning and teaching, and how, in turn, education had an impact on its urban context. Drawing inspiration from the modern idea of ‘learning cities’, the chapters explore the interplay of teachers, learners, political leaders, communities and institutions in the Mediterranean polis, with a focus on the well-documented city of Gaza in the sixth century CE. They demonstrate in detail that formal and informal teaching, as well as educational thinking, not only responded to specifically local needs, but also exerted considerable influence on local society. With its interdisciplinary and comparatist approach, the volume aims to contextualise ancient education, in order to stimulate further research on ancient learning cities. It also highlights the benefits of historical research to theory and practice in modern education.

Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004422617
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity written by Mark Humphries and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.

Author : Dr John Rich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113476135X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City in Late Antiquity written by Dr John Rich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts the change undergone by cities as the Empire was weakened by the third-century crisis, and later disintegrated under external pressures. The old picture of the classical city as everywhere in decline by the fourth century is shown to be far too simple, and John Rich seeks to explain why urban life disappeared in some regions, while elsewhere cities survived through to the Middle Ages and beyond.

Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520258169
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria written by Edward J. Watts and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity. While previous scholarship has seen Christian reactions to pagan educational culture as the product of an empire-wide process of development, Edward J. Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city. Touching on the careers of Herodes Atticus, Proclus, Damascius, Ammonius Saccas, Origen, Hypatia, and Olympiodorus; and events including the Herulian sack of Athens, the closing of the Athenian Neoplatonic school under Justinian, the rise of Arian Christianity, and the sack of the Serapeum, he shows that by the sixth century, Athens and Alexandria had two distinct, locally determined, approaches to pagan teaching that had their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school.

Author : Michael J. Kelly
Publisher : Punctum Books
ISBN 13 : 9781953035059
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Interactions: Communication and Competition in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages written by Michael J. Kelly and published by Punctum Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late "Roman" and post-"Roman" cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research has been committed to examining how local people and communities thought about, engaged with, and struggled against nearby or distant urban neighbors.Urban Interactions addresses this lacuna in urban history by presenting articles that apply a diverse spectrum of approaches, from archaeological investigation to critical analyses of historiographical and historical biases and developmental consideration of antagonisms between ecclesiastical centers. Through these avenues of investigation, this volume elucidates the relationship between the urban centers and their immediate hinterlands and neighboring cities with which they might vie or collaborate. This entanglement and competition, whether subterraneous or explicit across overarching political, religious or other macro categories, is evaluated through a broad geographical range of late "Roman" provinces and post-"Roman" states to maintain an expansive perspective of developmental trends within and about the city."

Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : Late Antique Archaeology (Supp
ISBN 13 : 9789004413726
Total Pages : 1746 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Space in the Late Antique City written by Luke Lavan and published by Late Antique Archaeology (Supp. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. Streets, processions, fora, agorai, macella, shops -- v. 2. Sites, buildings, dates.

Author : Averil Cameron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136673059
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity written by Averil Cameron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean society as a whole before the Arab conquests. Two new chapters survey the situation in the east after the death of Justinian and cover the Byzantine wars with Persia, religious developments in the eastern Mediterranean during the life of Muhammad, the reign of Heraclius, the Arab conquests and the establishment of the Umayyad caliphate. Using the latest in-depth archaeological evidence, this all-round historical and thematic study of the west and the eastern empire has become the standard work on the period. The new edition takes account of recent research on topics such as the barbarian ‘invasions’, periodization, and questions of decline or continuity, as well as the current interest in church councils, orthodoxy and heresy and the separation of the miaphysite church in the sixth-century east. It contains a new introductory survey of recent scholarship on the fourth century AD, and has a full bibliography and extensive notes with suggestions for further reading. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity 395-700 AD continues to be the benchmark for publications on the history of Late Antiquity and is indispensible to anyone studying the period.

Author : Lillian I. Larsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107194954
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monastic Education in Late Antiquity written by Lillian I. Larsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399690
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Cities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Cities is an interdisciplinary, cultural-comparative volume on Iberian urban studies. It is the first attempt to bring together recent research on the transformation of Iberian cities from Late Antiquity to the 18th century combining archaeological and historical sources.

Author : Mateusz Fafinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108996531
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages written by Mateusz Fafinski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element will reevaluate the relationship between monasticism and the city in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the period 400 to 700 in both post-Roman West and the eastern Mediterranean, putting both of those areas in conversation. Building on recent scholarship on the nature of late antique urbanism, the authors can observe that the links between late antique Christian thought and the late and post-Roman urban space were far more relevant to the everyday practice of monasticism than previously thought. By comparing Latin, Greek and Syriac sources from a broad geographical area, the authors gain a birds' eye view on the enduring importance of urbanism in a late and post-Roman monastic world.