Canonical texts and scholarly practices : a global comparative approach / edited by Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grafton, Anthony, editor.

Most, Glenn W., editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canon (Literature).

Transmission of texts.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

xi, 388 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Contents:

How to do things with texts: an introduction Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most

1. Reliable books: Islamic law, canonization, and manuscripts in the Ottoman Empire (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) / Guy Burak (New York University)

2. Obscurity / Ineke Sluiter (University of Leiden)

3. Allegoresis and etymology / Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/University of Chicago)

4. Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage: the deity-of-the-formula system / Paolo Visigalli (University of Munich)

5. Maryadam Ullanghya: The boundaries of interpretation in Early Modern India / Christopher Minkowski (University of Oxford)

6. Making sense of Suetonius in the Twelfth Century / Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University)

7. From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi as a reader-annotator / Lianbin Dai (Harvard University)

8. Gods on clay: Ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions / Aaron Tugendhaft (University of Chicago)

9. An unknown Medieval Coptic Hebraism? On a momentous junction of Jewish and Coptic biblical studies / Ronny Vollandt (Free University of Berlin)

10. Picturing as practice: placing a square above a square in the Central Middle Ages / Megan McNamee (University of Michigan)

11. Inimitable sources: canonical texts and rhetorical theory in the Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew Traditions / Filippomaria Pontani (University of Venice)

12. Excerpts versus fragments: deconstructions and reconstitutions of the Excerpta Constantiniana / András Németh (Vatican Apostolic Library)

13. Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook / Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (University of Oxford)

14. World bibliographies: libraries and the reorganization of knowledge in Late Renaissance Europe / Paola Molino (University of Vienna).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781107105980

1107105986

OCLC:

948668838