Aristotle's Problemata in different times and tongues / edited by Pieter De Leemans and Michèle Goyens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Leemans, Pieter.

Goyens, Michèle.

Series:

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia ; ser. 1, studia 39.

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia ; ser. 1, studia 39

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation.

Aristotle.

Aristotle--Influence.

Aristotle. Problems.

Aristotle--Appreciation--France.

Criticism and interpretation.

France.

Physical Description:

xvi, 325 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English and French.

Summary:

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 39Communication leads to an evolution of knowledge, and the free exchange of knowledge leads to fresh findings. In the Middle Ages things were no different. The inheritance of ancient knowledge deeply influenced medieval thought. The writings of ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle reached medieval readers primarily through translations. Translators made an interpretation of the source-text, and their translations became the subject of commentaries. An understanding of the complex web of relations among source-texts, translations, and commentaries reveals how scientific thinking evolved during the Middle Ages. Aristotle's Problemata, a text provoking various questions about scientific and everyday topics, amply illustrates the communication of ideas during the transition between antiquity and the Renaissance.

Contents:

Preliminary Observations on the Place of the Problemata in Medieval Learning / Joan Cadden 1

Pseudo-Alexander or Pseudo-Aristotle, Medical Puzzles and Physical Problems / Robert W. Sharples 21

The Genre Problemata in Arabic: Its Motions and Changes / Lou S. Filius 33

L'Expositio Succinta Problematum Aristotelis de Pierre d'Abano / Graziella Federici Vescovini 55

Aristotle's Problems in the West: A Contribution to the Study of the Medieval Latin Tradition / Maaike Van der Lugt 71

Aristoteles fuit causa efficiens huius libri: On the Reception of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata in Late Medieval Encyclopaedic Culture / Iolanda Ventura 113

Evrart de Conty, poete, traducteur et commentateur / Francoise Guichard-Tesson 145

Des problemes pour exercer l'entendement des lecteurs: Evrart de Conty, Nicole Oresme et la recherche de la nouveaute / Caroline Boucher 175

Lectures et vulgarisation du savoir aristotelicien: les gloses d'Evrart de Conty (sections XXV-XXVI) / Joelle Ducos 199

Evrart de Conty et Pierre d'Abano: commentateurs d'Aristote / Genevieve Dumas 227

A la recherche de la subjectivite dans les Problemes d'Evrart de Conty: un commentateur juche sur les epaules d'Aristote? / Annelies Bloem 247

George of Trebizond's Critique of Theodore Gaza's Translation of the Aristotelian Problemata / John Monfasani 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-317) and indexes.

ISBN:

9058675246

9789058675248

OCLC:

122970763