An Age of Fragmentation. Evidence from Late Antique Literary, Visual, and Material Cultures
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
An Age of Fragmentation. Evidence from Late Antique Literary, Visual, and Material Cultures
Original language description
Certain aesthetic phenomena of late antique (third to seventh centuries) seem to run parallel in literary, visual, and material cultures, attesting to an apparently coherent cultural transformation triggered off by the penetration of Christianity, especially in the Latin West. This study focuses on various manifestations of “cumulative aesthetics” that seem particularly characteristic of the period, such as cultural spoliation, fragmentation patterns, and the poetics of detail. Additional consideration is given to the changing role of audiences and the general movement toward “open artifacts”, as conceived by Umberto Eco. Accepting these practices as significant semantic strategies common in multiple media to reappropriate the past, the “radical” transformation of late antique society emerges as possible only through the continuity of and contiguity with classical heritage. The latter had first to be dismantled into parts before being reassembled into a new, coherent whole within the newly established prism of Christianity. This “unity in diversity” motif seems to be a dominant communication strategy in late antique visual and literary discourse, both encouraging and authorizing aesthetic experiments with the cultural heritage of the past and consistent with official imperial court propaganda.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Meditteranean
ISSN
2336-3452
e-ISSN
2336-808X
Volume of the periodical
2022
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Supplementum 10
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
24-47
UT code for WoS article
001183184200002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85153061930