Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation

Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation PDF Author: Francis J. Carmody
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520345401
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation

Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation PDF Author: Francis J. Carmody
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520345401
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation

Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation PDF Author: Francis James Carmody
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Unlocked Books

Unlocked Books PDF Author: Benedek Láng
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271048212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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"Presents and analyzes texts of learned magic written in medieval Central Europe (Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary), and attempts to identify their authors, readers, and collectors"--Provided by publisher.

The Secret of Secrets

The Secret of Secrets PDF Author: Steven J. Williams
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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A compelling study of a "best-seller" from the Middle Ages

Aristotle's Meteorology in the Arabico-Latin Tradition

Aristotle's Meteorology in the Arabico-Latin Tradition PDF Author: Pieter L. Schoonheim
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004453113
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Aristotle’s Meteorology: a twin set in Mediaeval Text Tradition. The Greek text of Aristotle’s Meteorology is in places highly problematic. Its edition by Fobes (1922), however, is a highlight in editorial technique. The Arabic version (c.800) is of quite different form and content. The two editions by Badawi (1961) and Petraitis (1967) were subject to considerable improvement. The present edition was done on the basis of the two extant Arabic manuscripts. The edition of the Latin translation (12th c.) from the Arabic has been constituted on the basis of 5 manuscript sources, out of 110 copies. The status of both the Arabic and the Latin texts was bad, but not hopeless: as the Latin version stands near to its Arabic predecessor, the text of the latter gives support to the editing of the text, as well as for the understanding of the contents. And this procedure works vice versa. The present edition of the texts has been completed with an Index of technical terms in Arabic, Greek and Latin and Registers on the Greek and Latin. Further a Bibliography and List of Latin manuscripts are presented.

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 PDF Author: Michael Lapidge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521802109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)

Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages

Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages PDF Author: John Block Friedman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135591016
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1446

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Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.

A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance

A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance PDF Author: Brendan Dooley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900426230X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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Book Description
It has been called “the most singular centaur that religion and science have ever produced” (Franz Boll). Astrology as a cultural form has puzzled and fascinated generations of humankind. It reached its apogee in the European Renaissance, when it flourished in literature, political expression, medicine, art, and all the other areas of endeavor catalogued in this unique collection. Brill’s Companion to Renaissance Astrology brings together a wide array of expertise from around the globe to explain the method and matter of this cultural form, including the Arab and Classical heritage, the medieval tradition, the clash with organized religion, the influence on knowledge and the competition with newly emerging ways of knowing, summarizing the current state of research and suggesting new paths. Contributors include: Giuseppe Bezza, Dieter Blume, Claudia Brosseder, Brendan Dooley, William Eamon, Ornella Faracovi, Hiro Hirai, Wolfgang Hübner, Eileen Reeves, Steven Vanden Broecke, and Graziella Federici Vescovini.

Religion and the Decline of Magic

Religion and the Decline of Magic PDF Author: Keith Thomas
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141932406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 853

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Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.

Islam in Spanish Literature

Islam in Spanish Literature PDF Author: Luce Lopez-Baralt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004661549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Islam in Spanish Literature is a sweeping reinterpretation of Spanish literature, taking as its given the enormous debt to Arab culture that Spain incurred through the eight centuries of Islamic presence on the Iberian Peninsula. This volume takes up the thread of the work of the Arabist Miguel Asín Palacios, the first to comment extensively upon the marked Islamic features in many Spanish classics. After an initial survey of the presence of Islam and Judaism in Spanish history and culture, succeeding chapters explore the Muslim context of Juan Ruiz, the author of the Libro de buen amor; St John of the Cross; St Teresa de Jesus; the anonymous sonnet "No me mueve, mi Dios"; aljamiado-morisco literature and then "official" Moorophile literature, standing in such dramatic contrast to one another; and last, the novelist Juan Goytisolo, who, writing today, continues to reflect upon the impact of the East on Spanish culture. It is no exaggeration to state that this book redefines the ground of the study of Spanish literature; it will be hard for the contemporary reader ever again to read it with innocence, as a literature exclusively "European."