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Décadence

“Decline and Fall” or “Other Antiquity”?

Herausgeber: Formisano, Marco | Fuhrer, Therese | Stock, Anna-Lena

Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Bd. 140

2014

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Abstract

No scholar today would describe late antiquity as an age of “decline and fall”, as Gibbon did; instead, to use Marrou's term, it is seen as an “other antiquity”, which deserves to be investigated on its own terms. Yet the idea of a decadent period, accompanied by a fascination for the image of antiquity on the wane, continues to live in scholarly minds, as is suggested, after all, by the recurring insistence on the point that late antiquity was not a period of decline. This collection of papers engages in a productive way with the fascination exerted by the concept of an era in decline and a literary and artistic fin-de-siècle atmosphere, evoked in the very Title ‘Décadence’. Whether this fascination is seen as a question of the history of reception or as an ongoing phenomenon, it rarely emerges to the surface of scholarly discussions. This volume invites us to reconsider these questions by making decadent late antiquity a paradigm of interpretation in connection with a conscious and sophisticated re-use of the history of reception.

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The Library of the Other Antiquity V
Contents 1
Preface 3
Marco Formisano: Reading Décadence – Reception and the Subaltern Late Antiquity 7
I. Décadence in Antiquity 17
Therese Fuhrer: Das Interesse am menschlichen Scheitern – Antike Konstruktionen des ‚Niedergangs‘ einer Kultur 19
Gillian Clark: Fragile Brilliance – Augustine, decadence, and “other antiquity 35
II. Imagining Late Antiquity: Décadence and Modernity 53
Helmut Pfeiffer: Flauberts Versuchung der Spätantike 55
Carlo Santini: „Aus einem Staat, der an einem Sprachfehler zugrundegegangen ist“ – Musil tardo-antico 77
Karin Schlapbach: “Under the full impact of a catastrophic end” – Augustine and the fall of Rome in Hannah Arendt’s reading 97
III. The Fertility of Décadence 113
Michael Roberts: Friedrich Mehmel, Pompatic Poetics, and Claudian’s Epithalamium for the Marriage of Honorius and Maria 115
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer: Die ‚Lust‘ der Poesie – ‚Décadence‘ in den spätantiken Epithalamien (Claudius Claudianus, c. m. 25 und Sidonius Apollinaris, cc. 10–11; 14–15 133
Danuta Shanzer: Incest and Late Antiquity – Décadence 149
IV. Reception: Late Antique Poetics 169
Stephen Hinds: ‘The self-conscious cento 171
Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed: Proba and Jerome 199
Jan Stenger: Der ‚barocke‘ Stil des Ammianus Marcellinus – Vom heuristischen Nutzen eines folgenreichen Verdikts 223
Étienne Wolff: Quelques jalons dans l’histoire de la réception de Sidoine Apollinaire 249
V. Décadence: Good to Think With? 261
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: Décadence Denounced in the Controversy over Origen – Giving Up Direct Reading of Sources and Counteractions 263
Christoph Markschies: Décadence? Christliche Theologen der Spätantike über den Verfall von Moral und Glauben seit Kaiser Konstantin 285
Andreas T. Zanker: Decline and Kunstprosa – Velleius Paterculus and Eduard Norden 299
Notes on Contributors 325
Index locorum 329
1.) Scripture 329
2.) Ancient Literature 329
3.) Medieval and Early Modern Literature 339
4.) Modern Literature 340
Index nominum et rerum 341