Aristotle's Problemata in Different Times and Tongues

by De Leemans, Pieter; Goyens, Michele

• ISBN13: 9789058675248
• ISBN10: 9058675246
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-31
• Publisher: Leuven Univ Pr

Summary

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 39 Communication 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Preliminary Observations on the Place of the Problemata in Medieval Learning	p. 1
Pseudo-Alexander or Pseudo-Aristotle, Medical Puzzles and Physical Problems	p. 21
The Genre Problemata in Arabic: Its Motions and Changes	p. 33
L'Expositio Succinta Problematum Aristotelis de Pierre d'Abano	p. 55
Aristotle's Problems in the West: A Contribution to the Study of the Medieval Latin Tradition	p. 71
Aristoteles fuit causa efficiens huius libri: On the Reception of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata in Late Medieval Encyclopaedic Culture	p. 113
Evrart de Conty, poete, traducteur et commentateur	p. 145
Des problemes pour exercer l'entendement des lecteurs: Evrart de Conty, Nicole Oresme et la recherche de la nouveaute	p. 175
Lectures et vulgarisation du savoir aristotelicien: les gloses d'Evrart de Conty (sections XXV-XXVI)	p. 199
Evrart de Conty et Pierre d'Abano: commentateurs d'Aristote	p. 227
A la recherche de la subjectivite dans les Problemes d'Evrart de Conty: un commentateur juche sur les epaules d'Aristote?	p. 247
George of Trebizond's Critique of Theodore Gaza's Translation of the Aristotelian Problemata	p. 275
Selected Bibliography	p. 295
Index codicum manu scriptorum	p. 319
Index auctorum	p. 322
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