A Critical Juncture: “Later” Latin Literature, the Newest Late Antiquity, and the Period of the Western Classic
Mark Vessey|Mark Vessey
With the appearance in 2020 of a long-awaited second “late antique” instalment Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur Antike (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1989– ) and new, collaborative Cambridge History Later Latin Literature now at an advanced stage preparation, there is opportunity to re-evaluate possibilities scholarship this field. What relation does such “literary” research bear current, globalizing styles late antique first-millennial historical cultural studies? likely be impact on it current trends study classical reception intertextuality? This essay attempts preliminary framing issues with reference largely discredited but still powerful model western literary classic, while arguing for hermeneutical continuity between breakthrough work Peter Brown’s half-century-old World Late Antiquity (1971) critical-historical role later ancient (Latin) studies.
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