"Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity examines the transformations that took place in a wide range of genres, both literary and non-literary, in this dynamic period. The Christianisation of the Roman empire and the successor kingdoms had a profound impact on the evolution of Greek and Roman literature, and many aspects of this are discussed in this volume--the composition of church history, the collection of papal letters, heresiology, homiletics and apologetic. Contributors discuss authors such as John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, Jerome, Liberatus of Carthage, Victor of Vita, and Epiphanius of Salamis as well as the Collectio Avellana. Secular literature too, however, underwent important changes, notably in Constantinople in the sixth century. Several chapters accordingly reassess the work of Procopius of Caesarea and literature of this period; attention is also given to the evolution of the chronicle genre. Technical writing, such as military manuals and legal texts, are the focus of other chapters; further genres considered include monody, epigraphy and epistolography. Changes in visual representation are also considered in chapters devoted to diptychs, monuments and coins"--Provided by publisher
Part I. Homiletics and disputation -- Medicine in transition : Christian adaptation in the later fourth-century East / Wendy Mayer -- Le De Obitu Theodosii dʹAmbroise (395) : une refonte des genres littéraires dans le creuset du sermon politique / Tiphaine Moreau -- Jeromeʹs De viris illustribus and new genres for Christian disputation in late antiquity / Colin Whiting -- The transformation of heresiology in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus / Young Richard Kim -- Part II. Ecclesiastical genres -- Adapter le genre du bréviaire plutôt quʹécrire une histoire ecclésiastique? Enquête sur le choix historiographique de Liberatus de Carthage / Philippe Blaudeau -- The emergence of papal decretals : the evidence of Zosimus of Rome / Geoffrey D. Dunn -- Collectio Avellana and the unspoken Ostrogoths : historical reconstruction in the sixth century / Dana Iuliana Viezure --
Éléments apologétiques chez Victor de Vita : exemple dʹun genre littéraire en transition / Éric Fournier -- Diabolical motivations : the devil in ecclesiastical histories from Eusebius to Evagrius / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe -- Part III. Visual genres -- Producing distinction : aristocratic and imperial representation in the Constantinian age / Mariana Bodnaruk -- Declaring victory, concealing defeat? Continuity and change in late Roman imperial coinage, c. AD 378-425 / Christopher Doyle -- The importance of being Stilicho : diptychs as a genre / Alice Christ -- Part IV. Procopius and literature in the sixth-century Eastern Empire -- Power, taste and the outsider : Procopius and the buildings revisited / Federico Montinaro -- Belisariusʹ second occupation of Rome and Periclesʹ last speech / Charles F. Pazdernik -- Technical writing, genre and aesthetic in Procopius / Elodie Turquois -- A Justinianic debate across genres on the state of the Roman Republic / Marion Kruse --
Part V. Technical genres -- The genre and purpose of military manuals in late antiquity / Conor Whately -- Les contrats de travail dans lʹantiquité Tardive : évolution du droit, évolution dʹun genre? / Christel Freu -- Natio, gens, provincialis, and civis : geographical representation of personal identity in late antiquity / Ralph Mathisen -- Part VI. Other literary genres -- The rhetoric of Varietas and epistolary encyclopedism in the Variae of Cassiodorus / Shane Bjornlie -- Byzantine world chronicles : identities of genre / Sergei Mariev -- Himerius and the personalization of the monody / Edward Watts
