Reading the Way to the Netherworld

Education and the Representations of the Beyond in Later Antiquity

550 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence: they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world.

• Reihe: Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG)
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Christentum
• ISBN: 9783525540305
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.12.2016
• Größe: 23.7 x 16 cm
• Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Herausgegeben von: Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
• Herausgegeben von: Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Ken Dowden, Calum A. Maciver, Marta Otlewska-Jung, Anna Lefteratou, Merryl Rebello, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Stelios Panayotakis, Konstantinos Stamatopoulos, Gabriela Ryser, Petra Korte, Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini, Andrea Villani, Ilaria Ramelli, Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov, Ron Naiweld, Elisabetta Abate, Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Christoph Auffarth, Marvin Döbler, Gabriela Ryser, Anna Lefteratou, Konstantinos Stamatopoulos