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Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages /

The creation and justification of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages gives rise to several questions: How is `foreign' knowledge given authority? What are the mechanisms of legitimation? Are the ascriptions by the sources concerning the origin of knowledge as either inherited or borrowe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Finding, inheriting or borrowing? Construction and transfer of knowledge about man and nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Manz, Germany
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2019]
Colección:Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; volume 39.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The creation and justification of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages gives rise to several questions: How is `foreign' knowledge given authority? What are the mechanisms of legitimation? Are the ascriptions by the sources concerning the origin of knowledge as either inherited or borrowed traceable and comprehensible or artificial and unfounded? Does transferred knowledge create new concepts during the act of borrowing?To answer these questions, the volume is divided into three parts: After a section on theoretical and methodological considerations, two thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i.e. on concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire.
Notas:Proceedings of conference held in Mainz, 14-16 September 2016.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (406 pages).
ISBN:9783839442364
3839442362
Acceso:Open Access