Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Society in the Near East, the Greco-Roman World and the Early Medieval West
Alasdair A. MacDonald|Michael W. Twomey|G.J. Reinink
This book is the first of three volumes containing selected proceedings international conference on theme Knowledge, Learning and Cultural Change, held at University Groningen in November 2001. The contributions this volume - which tackle basic topics encyclopedic texts, centres learning, paradigm shifts deal with a wide variety topics, ranging from Ancient Near East to Early Medieval West. They bring us into contact many different cultures languages: those Neo-Assyrian, Babylonian Hellenistic Mesopotamia; Late-Antique Judaism; Greco-Roman world; Christianity under Roman, Byzantine, Islamic Carolingian Empires. show that discussion cultural change relation field knowledge as applied some literary witnesses thereto, an approach both enriching rewarding, since it contributes elucidation past also better understanding present. treated volume, therefore, are not only relevant specialists various fields, but likely stimulate much further investigation comparable or related themes, by demonstrating approaches directions research most fruitful study complicated questions pertaining phenomena their mutation, transformation development continually changing world.