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UNINA9910452429403321 |
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Allen Pauline <1948-> |
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Crisis management in late antiquity (410-590 CE) : a survey of the evidence from Episcopal letters / / by Pauline Allen, Bronwen Neil |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2013 |
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1 online resource (298 p.) |
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Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, , 0920-623X ; ; volume 121 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 |
Christian literature, Early - History and criticism |
Bishops |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Front Matter / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Crisis in Late Antiquity / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Studying Late-Antique Crisis Management Through Letters / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Population Displacement / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Natural Disasters / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Religious Controversies and Violence / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Social Abuses / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Breakdown in the Structures of Dependence / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Conclusion / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Ancient Author Profiles / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Bibliography / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil -- Indexes / Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil. |
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Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil investigate crisis management as conducted by the increasingly important episcopal class in the 5th and 6th centuries. Their basic source is the neglected corpus of bishops’ letters in Greek and Latin, the letter being the most significant mode of communication and information-transfer in the period from 410 to 590 CE. The volume brings together into a wider setting a wealth of previous international research on episcopal strategies for dealing with crises of various kinds. Six broad categories of crisis are identified and analysed: population displacement, natural disasters, religious disputes |
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and religious violence, social abuses and the breakdown of the structures of dependence. Individual case-studies of episcopal management are provided for each of these categories. This is the first comprehensive treatment of crisis management in the late-antique world, and the first survey of episcopal letter-writing across the later Roman empire. |
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UNINA9910798620703321 |
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Autore |
Keenleyside Heather |
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Animals and other people : literary forms and living beings in the long eighteenth century / / Heather Keenleyside |
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Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 pages) |
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English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Animals in literature |
Animals (Philosophy) |
Human-animal relationships in literature |
Personification in literature |
Literary form - History - 18th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Animals and Other Figures -- Chapter 1. The Person: Poetry, Personification, and the Composition of Domestic Society -- Chapter 2. The Creature: Domestic Politics and the Novelistic Character -- Chapter 3. The Human: Satire and the Naturalization of the Person -- Chapter 4. The Animal: The Life Narrative as a Form of Life -- Chapter 5. The Child: The Fabulous Animal and the Family Pet -- Coda. Growing Human -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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In Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the |
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central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers-including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and others-she recovers a key insight about the representation of living beings: when we think and write about animals, we are never in the territory of strictly literal description, relying solely on the evidence of our senses. Indeed, any description of animals involves personification of a sort, if we understand personification not as a rhetorical ornament but as a fundamental part of our descriptive and conceptual repertoire, essential for distinguishing living beings from things. Throughout the book, animals are characterized by a distinctive mode of agency and generality; they are at once moving and being moved, at once individual beings and generic or species figures (every cat is also "The Cat"). Animals thus become figures with which to think about key philosophical questions about the nature of human agency and of social and political community. They also come into view as potential participants in that community, as one sort of "people" among others. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People also argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together. |
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