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Medieval textual cultures : agents of transmission, translation and transformation / edited by Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky.

Other author/creatorWallis, Faith.
Other author/creatorWisnovsky, Robert, 1964-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
Descriptionviii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Series Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - tension, transmission, transformation, 2196-405X ; volume 6
Contents Introduction: agents of transmission, translation and transformation / Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky -- Agents and agencies? : the many facets of translation in Byzantine medicine / Alain Touwaide -- Galenism at the ʻAbbāsid Court / Keren Abbou Hershkovits -- A new catalogue of medieval translations into Latin of texts on astronomy and astrology / Charles Burnett and David Juste -- Bernat Metge and Hasdai Crescas : a conversation / Warren Zev Harvey -- Transmitting the astrolabe : Chaucer, Islamic astronomy, and the astrolabic text / Christine Chism -- Literary criticism in the Vulgate commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses / Frank T. Coulson -- On the individuality of the medieval translator / Michael McVaugh -- Charles I of Anjou as initiator of the Liber Continens translation : patronage between foreign affairs and medical interest / Raphaela Veit -- The transmission of Azarquiel's magic squares in Latin Europe / Rosa Comes -- On the integration of Islamic and Jewish thought : an unknown project proposal by Shlomo Pines / Carlos Fraenkel.
General notePapers based on the second interdisciplinary workshop, entitled "Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation", convened by McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Cultures in 2010.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016037914
ISBN9783110465464 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
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