Author: Patrick McGurkPublisher:
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
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Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
Author: Patrick McGurkPublisher:
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages :
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Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages: Astrological manuscripts in Italian libraries (other than Rome) by Patrick McGurk. 1966
Author: Patrick McGurkPublisher:
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
Author: Fritz SaxlCatalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
Author: Patrick McGurkCatalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
Author: Patrick McGurkCatalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
Author: Patrick McGurkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Catalogue of astrological and mythological illuminated manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
Author: Fritz SaxlPublisher:
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Category : Astrology
Languages : de
Pages : 164
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Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30
Author: Michael LapidgePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521802109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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.)
Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts
Author: Marion DolanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319567845
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries. Aratus' 270 B.C.E. Greek poem describing the constellations and astrological phenomena was translated and copied over 800 years into illuminated manuscripts that preserved and illustrated these ancient stories about the constellations. The Aratea survives in its entirety due to multiple translations from Greek to Latin and even to Arabic, with many illuminated versions being commissioned over the ages. The survey encompasses four interrelated disciplines: history of literature, history of myth, history of science, and history of art. Aratea manuscripts by their nature are a meeting place of these distinct branches, and the culling of information from historical literature and from the manuscripts themselves focuses on a wider, holistic view; a narrow approach could not provide a proper prospective. What is most essential to know about this work is that because of its successive incarnations it has survived and been reinterpreted through the centuries, which speaks to its importance in all of these disciplines. This book brings a better understanding of the history, changes and transmission of the original astronomical Phaenomena poem. Historians, art historians, astronomy lovers, and historians of astronomy will learn more specialized details concerning the Aratea and how the tradition survived from the Middle Ages. It is a credit to the poetry of Aratus and the later interpreters of the text that its pagan aspects were not edited nor removed, but respected and maintained in the exact same form despite the fact that all sixty Aratea manuscripts mentioned in this study were produced under the rule of Christianity.
Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar
Author: C. Philipp E. NothaftPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900427412X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
During the later Middle Ages (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), the study of chronology, astronomy, and scriptural exegesis among Christian scholars gave rise to Latin treatises that dealt specifically with the Jewish calendar and its adaptation to Christian purposes. In Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar C. Philipp E. Nothaft offers the first assessment of this phenomenon in the form of critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five key texts, which together shed fascinating new light on the avenues of intellectual exchange between medieval Jews and Christians.