@article{jolcel 81974, author = {Mark Vessey}, title = {A Critical Juncture: “Later” Latin Literature, the Newest Late Antiquity, and the Period of the Western Classic}, volume = {0}, year = {2022}, url = {https://jolcel.ugent.be/article/id/81974/}, issue = {7}, doi = {10.21825/jolcel.81974}, abstract = {<p>With the appearance in 2020 of a long-awaited second “late antique” instalment of the <em>Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike</em> (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1989– ) and a new, collaborative <em>Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature </em>now at an advanced stage of preparation, there is an opportunity to re-evaluate the possibilities of scholarship in this field. What relation does such “literary” research bear to current, globalizing styles in late antique and first-millennial historical and cultural studies? What is likely to be the impact on it of current trends in the study of classical reception and intertextuality? This essay attempts a preliminary framing of the issues with reference to a largely discredited but still powerful model of the western literary classic, while arguing for hermeneutical continuity between the breakthrough work of Peter Brown’s half-century-old <em>World of Late Antiquity</em> (1971) and the critical-historical role of later ancient (Latin) literary studies.</p>}, month = {6}, issn = {2593-743X}, publisher={RELICS}, journal = {Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures} }