Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture English; Hebrew; Arabic: 4 (Cursor Mundi, 4) - Tapa dura

Wallis, Faith; Fumo, Jamie; Fraenkel, Carlos

 
9782503534527: Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture English; Hebrew; Arabic: 4 (Cursor Mundi, 4)
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ISBN 10: 250353452X ISBN 13: 9782503534527
Editorial: Brepols, 2012

Sinopsis

This volume contains case studies that examine how medieval
cultures (western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish) adopted ideas
from the past and from each other in fields such as philosophy,
literature, religion, and medicine.

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Críticas

"The high calibre of the contributors, and the competence of the editors in their respective languages and subjects ensures the reliability of this collective volume. The cumulative bibliography and comprehensive index, which includes subject matter alongside proper names, reflect the coherence of the volume and the interpenetration of the studies it contains. Altogether the reader is richly rewarded by new research, elegantly and accurately presented." -- Charles Burnett, The Medieval Review

Reseña del editor

In this volume the McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures and their collaborators initiate a new reflection on the dynamics involved in receiving texts and ideas from antiquity or from other contemporary cultures. For all their historic specificity, the western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish civilizations of the Middle Ages were nonetheless co-participants in a complex web of cultural transmission that operated via translation and inevitably involved the transformation of what had been received. This three-fold process is what defines medieval intellectual history. Every act of transmission presumes the existence of some 'efficient cause' - a translation, a commentary, a book, a library, etc. Such vehicles of transmission, however, are not passive containers in which cultural products are transported. On the contrary: the vehicles themselves select, shape, and transform the material transmitted, making ancient or alien cultural products usable and attractive in another milieu. The case studies contained in this volume attempt to bring these larger processes into the foreground.They lay the groundwork for a new intellectual history of medieval civilizations in all their variety, based on the core premise that these shared not only a cultural heritage from antiquity but, more importantly, a broadly comparable 'operating system' for engaging with that heritage.Each was a culture of transmission, claiming ownership over the prestigious knowledge inherited from the past. Each depended on translation. Finally, each transformed what it appropriated.

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Editorial
Brepols
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
250353452X
ISBN 13 
9782503534527
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
433
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