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Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening (editors)
Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening (editors)
Autore Althoff Jochen
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (408)
Disciplina 303.48/30902
Collana Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften
Soggetto topico Technology and civilization
Civilization - History
Knowledge, Theory of - History
Technology transfer - History
Soggetto non controllato Antiquity, Middle Ages
Knowledge Transfer
Universals
Cultural History
History of Astronomy
Eschatology
Ancient History
Medieval History
History
ISBN 3-8376-4236-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter 1 CONTENT 5 Preface and Acknowledgements 9 The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era 13 Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge 41 The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt 71 Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture 99 Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity 123 The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium 167 "He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE 187 Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt 213 Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas 253 Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity 279 Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration 289 The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources 313 Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von Freising 343 The Ragnark Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing 365 Conclusion - The End of the World in Fire 385 About the Authors 391 Authors and Texts Cited 395 General index 403
Record Nr. UNISA-996309242803316
Althoff Jochen  
Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
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Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening (editors)
Finding, inheriting or borrowing? : the construction and transfer of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages / / Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, Tanja Pommerening (editors)
Autore Althoff Jochen
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (408)
Disciplina 303.48/30902
Collana Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften
Soggetto topico Technology and civilization
Civilization - History
Knowledge, Theory of - History
Technology transfer - History
Soggetto non controllato Antiquity, Middle Ages
Knowledge Transfer
Universals
Cultural History
History of Astronomy
Eschatology
Ancient History
Medieval History
History
ISBN 3-8376-4236-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter 1 CONTENT 5 Preface and Acknowledgements 9 The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Era 13 Transmitting Symbolic Concepts from the Perspective of Cultural Cognition - The Acquisition and Transfer of Folk-biological Knowledge 41 The Transfer of Knowledge from Mesopotamia to Egypt 71 Epistemology in the Biblical Tradition - Judean Knowledge-Building, Scribal Craftsmanship, and Scribal Culture 99 Bodies of Texts, Bodies of Tradition - Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body among Rabbinic Jews in Late Antiquity 123 The Reception and Rejection of "Foreign" Astronomical Knowledge in Byzantium 167 "He assigned Him as the Jewel of the night" - The Knowledge of the Moon in Mesopotamian Texts of the Late Second and First Millennia BCE 187 Shapeshifter - Knowledge of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt 213 Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch's De facie in orbe lunae - Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas 253 Conclusion - Of Moon and Men: Observations about the Knowledge of the Moon in Antiquity 279 Know Your Sources Before You Argue - Minucius Felix and Augustine of Hippo on the Conflagration 289 The Idea of an Apocalyptic Fire According to the Old and Middle Iranian Sources 313 Poets, Prophets, and Philosophers - The End of the World According to Otto von Freising 343 The Ragnark Myth in Scandinavia - Finding, Inheriting, and Borrowing 365 Conclusion - The End of the World in Fire 385 About the Authors 391 Authors and Texts Cited 395 General index 403
Record Nr. UNINA-9910315227803321
Althoff Jochen  
Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019
Materiale a stampa
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