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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Finding, inheriting or borrowing? Construction and transfer of knowledge about man and nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Manz, Germany
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2019]
Series:Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; volume 39.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of > History > Congresses.
Technology transfer > History > Congresses.
Technology and civilization > Congresses.
Civilization > History > Congresses.
Théorie de la connaissance > Histoire > Congrès.
Transfert de technologie > Histoire > Congrès.
Technologie et civilisation > Congrès.
Civilisation > Histoire > Congrès.
Social & cultural history.
HISTORY / Social History.
Civilization
Knowledge, Theory of
Technology and civilization
Technology transfer
Antiquity, Middle Ages
Knowledge Transfer
Universals
Cultural History
History of Astronomy
Eschatology
Ancient History
Medieval History
History
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENT
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era / Althoff, Jochen / Berrens, Dominik / Pommerening, Tanja
  • SECTION 1: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL ASPECTS
  • Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition
  • The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge / Ellen, Roy
  • The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt / Beck, Susanne
  • Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition
  • Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture / Cooley, Jeffrey L.
  • Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition
  • Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity / Lehmhaus, Lennart
  • The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium / Bardi, Alberto
  • SECTION 2: OF MAN AND MOON
  • KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL MEANING OF THE MOON
  • "He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night"
  • The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE / Brandes, Tim
  • Shapeshifter
  • Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt / Altmann-Wendling, Victoria
  • Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae
  • Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas / Taub, Liba
  • Conclusion
  • Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity / Altmann-Wendling, Victoria
  • SECTION 3: THE END OF THE WORLD IN FIRE
  • IMAGINATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES
  • Know Your Sources Before You Argue
  • Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration / Bärsch, Dominic
  • The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources / König, Götz
  • Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers
  • The End of the World According to Otto von Freising / Bärsch, Dominic
  • The Ragnarǫk Myth in Scandinavia
  • Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing / Schjødt, Jens Peter
  • Conclusion
  • The End of the World in Fire / Bärsch, Dominic / Berrens, Dominik
  • About the Authors
  • Authors and Texts Cited
  • General index

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