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Medieval textual cultures : agents of transmission, translation and transformation /

This book is the result of collaboration between scholars of medieval philosophy, science, literature and art. Despite their diverse disciplinary backgrounds, the contributors are committed to the hypothesis that medieval European, Jewish and Islamic textual culture can best be understood as a produ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wallis, Faith (Editor ), Wisnovsky, Robert, 1964- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
Colección:Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - tension, transmission, transformation ; volume 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: agents of transmission, translation and transformation / Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky
  • Agents and agencies? : the many facets of translation in Byzantine medicine / Alain Touwaide
  • Galenism at the ʻAbbāsid Court / Keren Abbou Hershkovits
  • A new catalogue of medieval translations into Latin of texts on astronomy and astrology / Charles Burnett and David Juste
  • Bernat Metge and Hasdai Crescas : a conversation / Warren Zev Harvey
  • Transmitting the astrolabe : Chaucer, Islamic astronomy, and the astrolabic text / Christine Chism
  • Literary criticism in the Vulgate commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses / Frank T. Coulson
  • On the individuality of the medieval translator / Michael McVaugh
  • Charles I of Anjou as initiator of the Liber Continens translation : patronage between foreign affairs and medical interest / Raphaela Veit
  • The transmission of Azarquiel's magic squares in Latin Europe / Rosa Comes
  • On the integration of Islamic and Jewish thought : an unknown project proposal by Shlomo Pines / Carlos Fraenkel.