Title Grammar and Christianity in the late Roman world / Catherine M. Chin

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages) Series Divinations Divinations. Contents Introduction : toward tyranny -- Imagining classics -- From grammar to piety -- Displacement and excess : Christianizing grammar -- Fear, boredom, and amusement : emotion and grammar -- Grammar and utopia -- Epilogue : Christianization and narration Summary Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts-the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius, and Priscian-have long been studied as documents in the history of linguistic theory and literary scholarship. In Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World, Catherine Chin instead finds within them an opportunity to probe the connections between religious ideology and literary culture in the later Roman Empire. To Chin, the production and use of these texts played a decisive role both in the construction of a pre-Christian classical culture and in the construction of Christianity as a religious entity bound to a religious text. In exploring themes of utopian writing, pedagogical violence, and the narration of the self, the book describes the multiple ways literary education contributed to the idea that the Roman Empire and its inhabitants were capable of converting from one culture to another, from classical to Christian. The study thus reexamines the tensions between these two idealized cultures in antiquity by suggesting that, on a literary level, they were produced simultaneously through reading and writing techniques that were common across the empire. In bringing together and reevaluating fundamental topics from the fields of religious studies, classics, education, and literary criticism, Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World offers readers from these disciplines the opportunity to reconsider the basic conditions under which religions and cultures interact Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- History Christianity and culture -- History. RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. Christianity and culture Grammar, Comparative and general Grammatica. Latijn. Christendom. SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115160 Subject Rome (Empire) Romeinse rijk. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007023273 ISBN 9780812201574 0812201574

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