Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? - Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening, Jochen Althoff

ISBN 10: 3837642364 / ISBN 13: 9783837642360

Published by Transcript Verlag, DE, 2021

About this Item

Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a comprehensive introduction, the volume is divided into three parts: The contributions of the first section treat various theoretical and methodological aspects. Two additional thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i.e. concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? - Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag, DE
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837642364
• ISBN 13: 9783837642360
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 666 grams

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Synopsis

Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a comprehensive introduction, the volume is divided into three parts: The contributions of the first section treat various theoretical and methodological aspects. Two additional thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i.e. concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire.

About the Authors

Jochen Althoff (Prof. Dr.) is a professor of ancient Greek at the University of Mainz. He has published on ancient science and philosophy, especially Aristotle, and organizes the yearly meeting of the research unit Ancient Science and its Reception and co-edits a publication series of the same name. Since 2013, he has been vice-speaker of the research training group Early Concepts of Humans and Nature. Universal, Specific, Interchanged.

Dominik Berrens (Dr.) is a postdoctoral researcher in the project »NOSCEMUS - Nova Scientia: Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latin« at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests lie in pre-modern scientific texts and ancient drama.

Tanja Pommerening (Prof. Dr.) ist Professorin für Ägyptologie an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.