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Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts

Mark Vessey

出版	Ashgate, 2005
主題	Biography & Autobiography / ReligiousHistory / GeneralHistory / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Europe / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalReligion / Christianity / Literature & the ArtsReligion / Christianity / History
ISBN	08607898109780860789819
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3m_YAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history. After preliminary essays marking out the field, the volume is organized in three sections by authors, forms of discourse, and disciplines. Released from the theological discipline of patristics, the writings of the church fathers have in recent decades become the common property of students of early Christianity, late antiquity and the classical tradition. In principle, they are now no more (nor less) than sources, documents and literary texts like others from their period and milieux. Yet when replaced in the longer history of Western textual and literary practices, the collective literary oeuvre of Latin clerics, monks and ascetic freelances of the Later Roman Empire may still seem to occupy a place of decisive, if not canonical importance. How does one now account for the abiding formativeness of Latin Christian writing of the fourth and fifth centuries CE? What demands does such writing lay on a modern history of literature? These are the questions asked here, in view of a new literary history of patristic texts.