Medieval Textual Cultures : : Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation /

Medieval Textual Cultures : : Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation / / ed. by Faith Wallis, Robert Wisnovsky.

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Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Burnett, Charles,
Chism, Christine,
Comes, Rosa,
Coulson, Frank T.,
Fraenkel, Carlos,
Harvey, Warren Zev,
Hershkovits, Keren Abbou,
Juste, David,
McVaugh, Michael,
Touwaide, Alain,
Veit, Raphaela,
Wallis, Faith,
Wisnovsky, Robert,
HerausgeberIn:
Wallis, Faith,
Wisnovsky, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation , 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • A note on the forms of personal and institutional names
  • Introduction: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation
  • Agents and Agencies? The Many Facets of Translation in Byzantine Medicine
  • Galenism at the ʿAbbāsid Court
  • A New Catalogue of Medieval Translations into Latin of Texts on Astronomy and Astrology
  • Bernat Metge and Hasdai Crescas: A Conversation
  • Transmitting the Astrolabe: Chaucer, Islamic Astronomy, and the Astrolabic Text
  • Literary criticism in the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • On the Individuality of the Medieval Translator
  • Charles I of Anjou as Initiator of the Liber Continens Translation: Patronage Between Foreign Affairs and Medical Interest
  • The Transmission of Azarquiel’s Magic Squares in Latin Europe
  • On the Integration of Islamic and Jewish Thought: An Unknown Project Proposal by Shlomo Pines
  • Index

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