After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present - Hardcover

Kotrosits, Maia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1478029323 ISBN 13: 9781478029328

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478029323
• ISBN 13: 9781478029328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168