The diagram as paradigm : cross-cultural approaches / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David J. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957- editor.

Roxburgh, David J., editor.

Safran, Linda, editor.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia.

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charts, diagrams, etc--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.

Charts, diagrams, etc.

Charts, diagrams, etc--Europe--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Charts, diagrams, etc--Islamic countries--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (563 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Diagram as Paradigm

Place of Publication:

Washington Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2022

Washington, District of Columbia : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This is the first book that looks at medieval diagrams in a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on three regions-Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West-each culturally diverse and each closely linked to the others through complex processes of intellectual, artistic, diplomatic, and mercantile exchange. The volume unites case studies, often of little-known material, by an international set of specialists, and is prefaced by four introductory essays that provide broad overviews of diagrammatic traditions in these regions in addition to considering the theoretical dimensions of diagramming. Among the historical disciplines whose use of diagrams is explored are philosophy, theology, mysticism, music, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and cosmology. Despite the sheer variety, ingenuity, and visual inventiveness of diagrams from the premodern world, in conception and practical use they often share many similarities, both in construction and application. Diagrams prove to be an essential part of the fabric of premodern intellectual, scientific, religious, artistic, and artisanal life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

General introduction : medieval diagrams / Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Overviews. Byzantine diagrams / Linda Safran

Islamicate diagrams / David J. Roxburgh

Western medieval diagrams / Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Scientific diagrams. Between diagram and image : on Yuval's harp / Benjamin Anderson

Byzantine-Islamic scientific culture in the astronomical diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus / Alexandre M. Roberts

Space, place, diagram : Cleomedes and the visual program of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbiliothek, Cod.gr. 482 / Divna Manolova

Al-Ṣūfī's Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita (Book of forms of the fixed stars) : between illustrated book, scientific instrument, and firmament / David J. Roxburgh

Cosmological diagrams. A world of embedded spheres : circular planetary diagrams in late Byzantine manuscripts / Anne-Laurence Caudano

Islamic cosmological diagrams / Sonja Brentjes

Corporeal and spiritual celestial spheres and their visual figurations : from Abelard of Bath to Honorius to John of Sacrobosco and Michael Scot / Barbara Obrist

Medical diagrams. Diagrams in Greek medical manuscripts / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Proven recipes : geometry and the art of Arabic medicine / Meekyung Macmurdie

Utility beyond function : practical and social uses of diagrams in late medieval English medical manuscripts / Sara Öberg Strådal

Mathematical, philosophical, and theological diagrams. Grid space in Boethius's De institutione arithmetica / Megan C. McNamee

Drawing conclusions : logic diagrams as a matrix for the making and meaning of Christian images in the Middle Ages / Jeffrey H. Hamburger

Zweifalten's Diagrammatic scriptorium / Adam S. Cohen

Diagramming Byzantine orthodoxy / Linda Safran

The Prophet Muḥammad's ʻAyn Seal : a Safavid-period diagram as cosmic vision / Christiane Gruber.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.