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Renouare Dolorem: Coming to Terms With Catastrophe in Fifth-Century Gaul

Phillips, Benjamin W.
http://orcid.org/0009-0008-0327-9883
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1713440799572248

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2024, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, History (Arts and Sciences).
This thesis essays to study and interpret a small body of poems from Southern Gaul which respond to the breach of the Rhine frontier and subsequent crises from 406-418 AD. After demonstrating contemporary literary conventions in both secular and Christian discourses, the paper will survey how the poems in question came to terms with recent catastrophe and thereby rearticulated differing ideas of empire and meta-history which drew upon the Latin Epic tradition but deployed them in a context that was increasingly Christian and destabilized. While this will shed limited light on the political events, it will primarily serve to situate the beginnings of the Fall of the Western Empire in their intellectual context and indicate how they served as agents of the transformation of the Classical World and the draining of the secular.
Jaclyn Maxwell (Committee Chair)
Kevin Uhalde (Committee Member)
Neil Bernstein (Committee Member)
179 p.
Classical Studies; Education History; European History; History; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Middle Ages; Religion; Religious History
Late Antiquity; Early Christianity; Fall of Rome; Roman Empire; Catastrophe; Literary Studies; Epic; Latin Epic; Early Christian Poetry; Late Antique Poetry; Intellectual History; Classics; Reception Studies; Intertextuality

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  • Phillips, B. W. (2024). Renouare Dolorem: Coming to Terms With Catastrophe in Fifth-Century Gaul [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1713440799572248

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Phillips, Benjamin. Renouare Dolorem: Coming to Terms With Catastrophe in Fifth-Century Gaul. 2024. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1713440799572248.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Phillips, Benjamin. "Renouare Dolorem: Coming to Terms With Catastrophe in Fifth-Century Gaul." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1713440799572248

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