Aristotle's "Problemata" in Different Times and Tongues

by Pieter De Leemans (Editor), Michéle Goyens (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789058675248
Publisher:	Leuven University Press
Publication date:	02/15/2008
Series:	Mediaevalia Lovaniensia , #39
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	341
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Pieter De Leemans is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the KU Leuven and Academic Secretary of the Aristoteles Latinus.

Table of Contents

Introduction   Pieter De Leemans   Michele Goyens     ix
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 deConty: 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
Selected Bibliography     295
Index codicum manu scriptorum     319
Index auctorum     322