Night in the Big City: Temporal Patterns in Antioch and Constantinople as Revealed by Chrysostomâs Sermons

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Chapter 21 Night in the Big City: Temporal Patterns in Antioch and Constantinople as Revealed by Chrysostomâs Sermons

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Pages:: 698â732

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390041_022

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In recent years, there has been a burgeoning scholarship on how nighttime activities and sleep itself changed in the early modern period due to the impact of urbanisation and the first street lighting. The exploration of similar topics in the ancient world is still in its infancy. Even so, it has long been recognised that the closest ancient parallel to modern street lighting was in the porticoed streets of late-antique cities like Antioch. Chrysostomâs sermons offer us a window, albeit a distorted one, into the everyday lives of the people of Antioch and Constantinople. This chapter will explore what his sermons have to tell us about nighttime work, sleep, prayer, and insomnia in an urban environment. The ultimate aim is to answer whether residents of large late-antique cities were closer to the modern or traditional pattern in their experience of the night.

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Revisioning John Chrysostom

New Approaches, New Perspectives

Series:Â Critical Approaches to Early Christianity, Volume: 1

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