'Classicising learning, performance, and power: Eurasian perspectives from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period'

'Classicising learning, performance, and power: Eurasian perspectives from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period'

The term ‘classicising’, as understood here, encompasses wide-ranging aspects and forms of learning that are recognized as carrying on the legacy of a revered past (however defined), and thus considered authoritative. The focus of the papers are on performances that relate to texts or other media, composed in writing or improvised on the spot, as well as social and/or bodily performances such as habitus, ritualized behaviour and theatre. 

Aiming at encouraging scholarly exchanges among experts in different fields and cultures, the papers relate to the following three interconnected thematic strands.

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