Knowledge Construction In Late Antiquity
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Author |
: Monika Amsler |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2023-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111010311 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111010317 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity by : Monika Amsler
Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of knowledge production in laboratories (e.g., Latour/Woolgar 1979; Knorr-Cetina 1981) have identified factors that affect processes that lead to the generation of scientific data and their subsequent interpretation, such as money, training and curriculum, location and infrastructure, biography-based knowledge and talent, and chance. More recent theories of knowledge construction have further identified different forms of knowledge, such as tacit, intuitive, explicit, personal, and social knowledge. These theoretical frameworks and critical terms can help reveal and clarify the processes that led to ancient data gathering, information and knowledge production. The contributors use late-antique hermeneutical associations as means to explore intuitive or even tacit knowledge; they appreciate mistakes as a platform to study the value of personal knowledge and its premises; they think about rows and tables, letter exchanges, and schools as platforms of distributed cognition; they consider walls as venues for social knowledge production; and rethink the value of social knowledge in scholarly genealogies--then and now.
Author |
: Monika Amsler |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 479 |
Release |
: 2023-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111011042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111011046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity by : Monika Amsler
Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of knowledge production in laboratories (e.g., Latour/Woolgar 1979; Knorr-Cetina 1981) have identified factors that affect processes that lead to the generation of scientific data and their subsequent interpretation, such as money, training and curriculum, location and infrastructure, biography-based knowledge and talent, and chance. More recent theories of knowledge construction have further identified different forms of knowledge, such as tacit, intuitive, explicit, personal, and social knowledge. These theoretical frameworks and critical terms can help reveal and clarify the processes that led to ancient data gathering, information and knowledge production. The contributors use late-antique hermeneutical associations as means to explore intuitive or even tacit knowledge; they appreciate mistakes as a platform to study the value of personal knowledge and its premises; they think about rows and tables, letter exchanges, and schools as platforms of distributed cognition; they consider walls as venues for social knowledge production; and rethink the value of social knowledge in scholarly genealogies—then and now.
Author |
: Monika Amsler |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2023-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009297332 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009297333 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture by : Monika Amsler
A new theory of the Talmud's formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.
Author |
: Jan Stenger |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2022-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198869788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198869789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Education in Late Antiquity by : Jan Stenger
Education in Late Antiquity explores how the Christian and pagan writers of the Graeco-Roman world between c. 300 and 550 CE rethought the role of intellectual and ethical formation. Analysing explicit and implicit theorization of education, it traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation. Influential scholarship has seen the postclassical education system as an immovable and uniform field. In response, this book argues that writers of the period offered substantive critiques of established formal education and tried to reorient ancient approaches to learning. By bringing together a wide range of discourses and genres, Education in Late Antiquity reveals that educational thought was implicated in the ideas and practices of wider society. Educational ideologies addressed central preoccupations of the time, including morality, religion, the relationship with others and the world, and concepts of gender and the self. The idea that education was a transformative process that gave shape to the entire being of a person, instead of imparting formal knowledge and skills, was key. The debate revolved around attaining happiness, the good life, and fulfilment, thus orienting education toward the development of the notion of humanity within the person. By exploring the discourse on education, this book recovers the changing horizons of Graeco-Roman thought on learning and formation from the fourth to the sixth centuries
Author |
: Douglas R. Underwood |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2019-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004390539 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004390537 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis (Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 by : Douglas R. Underwood
In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities.
Author |
: Ine Wouters |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 941 |
Release |
: 2018-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429822643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429822642 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories, Volume 1 by : Ine Wouters
Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history. This is volume 1 of the book set.
Author |
: Ine Wouters |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 1394 |
Release |
: 2018-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429013621 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429013620 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories by : Ine Wouters
Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history.
Author |
: Ine Wouters |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 968 |
Release |
: 2018-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429822520 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429822529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories, volume 2 by : Ine Wouters
Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history. This is volume 2 of the book set.
Author |
: Radcliffe G. Edmonds III |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2023-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000989274 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000989275 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World by : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian cultures. Offering an original and innovative combination of case studies on the material aspects and cross-cultural transfers of magic and religion, this book brings together a range of contributions that cross and connect sub-fields with a pan-Mediterranean, comparative scope. Section I investigates the material aspects of magical practices, including first editions and original studies on papyri, gems, lamellae containing binding curses and protective texts, and other textual media in ancient book culture. Several chapters feature the Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri, the compilation of magical recipes in the formularies, and the role of physical book-forms in the transmission of magical knowledge. Section II explores magic and religion as nodes of cultural exchange in the ancient Mediterranean. Case studies range from Egypt to Anatolia and from Syria-Phoenicia to Sicily, with Greco-Roman religion and myth integrated in a diverse and interconnected Mediterranean landscape. Readers encounter studies featuring charismatic figures of Magi and itinerant begging priests, the multiple understandings of deities such as Hekate, Herakles, or Aphrodite, or the perceived exotic origin of cult statues, mummies, amulets, and cursing formulae, which bring to light the rich intercultural networks of the ancient Mediterranean, and the crucial role of magic and religion in the process of cross-cultural adaptation and innovation. Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World appeals to both specialized and non-specialized audiences, with expert contributions written in an accessible way. This is a fascinating resource for students and scholars working on magic, religion, and mythology in the ancient Mediterranean.
Author |
: Mark Letteney |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2023-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009363389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009363387 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity by : Mark Letteney
Traces ancient scholars and the manuscripts they produced, demonstrating that imperial Christianity changed not just what people believe, but how people think.