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- Title
Peter Brown: Response.
- Abstract
What is it like to be historians of religion when confronted with an age such as Late Antiquity where religion was a force to be reckoned with, but by no means the exclusive motor of historical change? The great Russian historian, Aron Gurevich, came up with a similar formulation when discussing the work of historians confronted with the sheer strangeness of medieval society - where notions of time and space, even the sense of the human person, seemed so very distant from our own. I am grateful to Katharina Heyden for having provided this occasion to discuss, in the congenial setting of the I Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum i , aspects of my recent book, I Journeys of the Mind. i The comments of my friends and colleagues have, in many ways, given me back to myself. I shared this view with others - with William Frend, for instance; with my friend and co-Fellow at All Souls, Fergus Millar; with the Marxist historian Geoffrey de Sainte Croix; and with the deeply learned historian of the monastic movement in Syria and Egypt, Derwas Chitty - to mention only my immediate circle.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS literature; RELIGIOUS tolerance; CHRISTIANS; CHURCH history; RELIGIONS; IMAGINATION; PLAINS; PREJUDICES
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity, 2023, Vol 27, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
0949-9571
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zac-2023-0022