After Transformation

Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present

Maia Kotrosits (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3276-2 (ISBN)

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In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. Recasting the monumental changes that occurred between the second and fourth centuries, when Rome transitioned from pagan to Christian worship, Kotrosits presents a condensed and evocative meditation on the profound effects of Christian imperialism across time and geography. She employs a collection of forms ranging from micro-essay and vignette to poem and fragment to capture human struggles with time and change, showing how the mundane and intimate details of our lives can themselves be conduits of historical knowing. Arguing for lyricism as a method, Kotrosits reclaims vulnerability, urgency, and storytelling in historical work to model new ways of writing the past and experiencing ourselves more fully in time. Above all, After Transformation is about the ironies of the ways that history is written against the reality of the ways that history is lived.

Maia Kotrosits is Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of World Religion at Harvard Divinity School and author of Theory, History, and the Study of Religion in Late Antiquity: Speculative Worlds.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Prologue
Interlude
Part I: Fathers
Interlude
Part II: Notes from the Interior
Interlude
Part III: Saints’ Lives
Interlude
Part IV: The Passing World
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2025
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4780-3276-6 / 1478032766
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3276-2 / 9781478032762
Zustand	Neuware