The Demise of the Christian Writer and the Remaking of "Late Antiquity": From H.-I. Marrou's Saint Augustine (1938) to Peter Brown's Holy Man (1983)

Vessey, Mark

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“…20 -See, e.g., Kennedy 1993, 46-63, and Hinds 1998, 10-16, persisting in Sharrock 2009, with further documentation in Dressler 2016b, 17-27. 21 -See, e.g., Nugent 1989, Elsner and Hernández Lobato 2017and Kaufman 2017, and also Goldhill 2012, 89, 94f., 111f., on Paulinus himself. 22 -On the formation of Christian poetry in this period, see Vessey 2007, 29-40, cf. Fielding 2017, 50f.…”

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Seeing (not) seeing: the phenomenology of deviant standpoint as a function of gender and class in Paulinus of Nola, Poems 18

Dressler

2018

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Identifying an allusion to classical Greco-Roman poetry in a monologue (or prosopopoeia) of a cowherd by the fourth century Latin poet, Paulinus of Nola (c. 18.276-80), this article explains the emergence of the category of labor as a response to a process of Christian radicalization from the representation of erotic paroxysm in Sappho (fr. 31: “I see nothing in my eyes”), through the classical Latin poets Catullus (c. 51) and Horace (c. 1.13, 22). In view of Paulinus’ renunciation of wealth and repurposing of elite culture for the poor, his reception of Sappho suggests that ancient men of property could recognize the perspectives of their subordinates and resist their own political interests through poetic production, and specifically metapoetics, as a result of the ambiguity of embodiment and sensation posited in the modern philosophy of phenomenology and commonalities of gender and class explicated in post/modern social theory. Attributing the combination of these factors to a “deviation” in “focalization” (D. Fowler) and a “doubling” of “consciousness” (J. Winkler) in the producer of the poem (Paulinus), the article uses the Marxist-feminist concept of standpoint to develop a phenomenological approach to literary history, which promises to recover, not the experience of the poor and marginal (or “subaltern”) in ancient literature, but the form of their experience, as an “imputation of consciousness” (G. Lukács), which may well be a distinctive mark of literature.

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Seeing (not) seeing: the phenomenology of deviant standpoint as a function of gender and class in Paulinus of Nola, Poems 18

Dressler

2018

Eugesta

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“…The inscription from 1007 of the Dionysian era also mentions the date 27. See on this topic Blaudeau, 2021; Lepelley, 1999;Markus, 2009;Pietri, 2008;Vessey, 1998. 28.…”

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Yvette Duval and the Late Antique North Africa

Nsiri

2023

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Yvette Duval’s publications offer diverse and contrasting aspects about the dynamism of late-antique North Africa. I have underlined the extent to which they were able to exert a considerable influence in recent historiography. The ideas defended in her various articles and books cannot leave anyone indifferent. Discussing them, drawing up a critical assessment, seeing them questioned, does not mean doing an iconoclast’s work. On the contrary, it is the best tribute that can be paid to a wo man who defended the idea of a multicolored Late Antiquity, far from the stereotypes resulting from the Aufklärung of crisis an decadence.

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Classical Philology and Theology

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The Demise of the Christian Writer and the Remaking of "Late Antiquity": From H.-I. Marrou's Saint Augustine (1938) to Peter Brown's Holy Man (1983)

Cited by 28 publications

References 24 publications

Seeing (not) seeing: the phenomenology of deviant standpoint as a function of gender and class in Paulinus of Nola, Poems 18

Seeing (not) seeing: the phenomenology of deviant standpoint as a function of gender and class in Paulinus of Nola, Poems 18

Yvette Duval and the Late Antique North Africa

Classical Philology and Theology

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