Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity

by David Brakke and Deborah Deliyannis

Book Overview

Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity explores the transformation of classical culture in late antiquity by studying cultures at the borders - the borders of empires, of social classes, of public and private spaces, of literary genres, of linguistic communities, and of the modern disciplines that study antiquity. Although such canonical figures of late ancient studies as Augustine and Ammianus Marcellinus appear in its pages, this book shifts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409441490
• ISBN13: 9781409441496
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"