ISBN:
9780271071091
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 270 Seiten
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26 cm
Year of publication:
2016
DDC:
091/.0937
Keywords:
Transmission of texts History To 1500
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Manuscripts, Medieval
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Civilization, Medieval
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Civilization, Medieval
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Geschichte
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Manuscripts, Medieval
;
Transmission of texts
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Abstract:
"A collection of essays using historical and philological approaches to study the transit of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period. Examines the nature of texts themselves and how they travel, and reveals the details behind the transit of texts across cultures, languages, and epochs"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
The role of oral transmission for astronomy among Romaniot Jews / Robert Morrison -- Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I heard" : a case study in Byzantine Jews' reception of Spanish-Provencal Jewish philosophical-scientific culture / Ofer Elior -- Gradations of light and pairs of opposites : two theories and their role in Abraham Bar Hiyya's Scroll of the revealer / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Cryptography in the late medieval Middle East : from Mosul to Venice? / Leigh Chipman -- Remembering, knowing, imagining : approaches to the topic of memory in medieval Islamic culture / Leonardo Capezzone -- Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291, as evidence of multifaceted textual movement in the Eastern Mediterranean / Brian N. Becker -- The wheat and the barley : feminine (in-)fertility in Eve and Adam narratives in Islam / Zohar Hadromi-Allouche -- Shiite underground literature between Iraq and Syria : The book of shadows and the history of the early Ghulat / Mushegh Asatryan -- Medieval Hebrew uroscopic texts : the reception of Greek uroscopic texts in the Hebrew book of remedies attributed to Asaf / Tamás Visi -- The transmission of Sephardic scientific works in Italy / Israel M. Sandman -- Medical translations and the Hikmet-i Tabiyye problematic in eighteenth-century Istanbul / B. Harun Küçük
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