Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance / / edited by Jason König and Greg Woolf [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 601 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 031.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Encyclopedias and dictionaries - History and criticism
Encyclopedists Learning and scholarship - History - To 1500 Learning and scholarship - History - 16th century Learning and scholarship - History - 17th century Civilization, Ancient Civilization, Medieval Renaissance |
ISBN |
1-107-46144-8
1-139-89280-0 1-107-45937-0 1-107-47219-9 1-107-46512-5 1-107-46864-7 1-139-81468-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism: 2. Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; 3. Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library Myrto Hatzimichali; 4. Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History Mary Beagon; 5. Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan; 6. Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 7. Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy; 8. Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries; 9. Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano; Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism: 10. Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino; 11. The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andres Nemeth; 12. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14. Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things Andrew Merrills; 15. Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson; 16. Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna; 17. Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel; Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism: 18. Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair; 19. Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia: some observations D.C. Andersson; 20. Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print Paul Dover; 21. Shakespeare's encyclopaedias Neil Rhodes; 22. Big dig: Dugdale's drainage and the dregs of England History of Embanking and Drayning Claire Preston; 23. Irony and encyclopedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment William West; Part IV. Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript: 24. The passion to collect, select, and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia Harriet Zurndorfer. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462756803321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance / / editors, Jason König, Greg Woolf |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 601 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 031.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Encyclopedias and dictionaries - History and criticism
Encyclopedists Learning and scholarship - History - To 1500 Learning and scholarship - History - 16th century Learning and scholarship - History - 17th century Civilization, Ancient Civilization, Medieval Renaissance |
ISBN |
1-107-45438-7
1-107-46144-8 1-139-89280-0 1-107-45937-0 1-107-47219-9 1-107-46512-5 1-107-46864-7 1-139-81468-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism: 2. Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; 3. Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library Myrto Hatzimichali; 4. Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History Mary Beagon; 5. Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan; 6. Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 7. Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy; 8. Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries; 9. Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano; Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism: 10. Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino; 11. The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andres Nemeth; 12. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14. Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things Andrew Merrills; 15. Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson; 16. Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna; 17. Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel; Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism: 18. Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair; 19. Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia: some observations D.C. Andersson; 20. Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print Paul Dover; 21. Shakespeare's encyclopaedias Neil Rhodes; 22. Big dig: Dugdale's drainage and the dregs of England History of Embanking and Drayning Claire Preston; 23. Irony and encyclopedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment William West; Part IV. Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript: 24. The passion to collect, select, and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia Harriet Zurndorfer. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787768003321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Encyclopaedism from antiquity to the Renaissance / / editors, Jason König, Greg Woolf |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 601 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 031.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Encyclopedias and dictionaries - History and criticism
Encyclopedists Learning and scholarship - History - To 1500 Learning and scholarship - History - 16th century Learning and scholarship - History - 17th century Civilization, Ancient Civilization, Medieval Renaissance |
ISBN |
1-107-45438-7
1-107-46144-8 1-139-89280-0 1-107-45937-0 1-107-47219-9 1-107-46512-5 1-107-46864-7 1-139-81468-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism: 2. Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; 3. Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library Myrto Hatzimichali; 4. Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History Mary Beagon; 5. Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan; 6. Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 7. Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy; 8. Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries; 9. Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano; Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism: 10. Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino; 11. The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andres Nemeth; 12. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14. Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things Andrew Merrills; 15. Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson; 16. Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna; 17. Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel; Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism: 18. Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair; 19. Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia: some observations D.C. Andersson; 20. Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print Paul Dover; 21. Shakespeare's encyclopaedias Neil Rhodes; 22. Big dig: Dugdale's drainage and the dregs of England History of Embanking and Drayning Claire Preston; 23. Irony and encyclopedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment William West; Part IV. Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript: 24. The passion to collect, select, and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia Harriet Zurndorfer. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826742203321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (450 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.3 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ImhausenAnnette
PommereningTanja |
Collana | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde |
Soggetto topico |
Learning and scholarship - History - To 1500
Science, Ancient - History Scientific literature - Translating Scientific literature - Greece - History and criticism Scientific literature - Middle East - History and criticism Scientific literature - Rome - History and criticism Translating and interpreting - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-93422-8
9786612934223 3-11-022993-5 |
Classificazione | FB 6095 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Translating ancient scientific texts -- Section I: Language as a feature of a scientific discipline -- Gegenstand und Methode: Sprachliche Erkenntnistechniken in der keilschriftlichen Überlieferung Mesopotamiens -- Das Verhältnis von medizinischer Prognose zur religiösen Divinatorik/Mantik in Griechenland -- Präzision in der Prognose oder: Divination als Wissenschaft -- Zur Rolle des Fachwortschatzes in der Naturalis historia des Älteren Plinius -- Section II: Translations of ancient scholars -- Translating the Phainomenaacross genre, language and culture -- Translating the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars -- Section III: Problems of translating ancient medical texts and possible solutions -- Von Impotenz und Migräne - eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Übersetzungen des Papyrus Ebers -- Rechts oder links - wörtlich oder dem Sinn nach? -- The lamp and the mirror, or: Some comments on the ancient understanding of Mesopotamian medical manuscripts -- Zur Neuedition des hieratisch-demotischen Papyrus Wien D 6257 aus römischer Zeit -- A recipe for a headache: Translating and interpreting ancient Greek and Roman remedies -- Section IV: Problems and methods in translating astronomical-astrological texts -- Ancient Egyptian star tables: A reinterpretation of their fundamental structure -- Methods for understanding and reconstructing Babylonian predicting rules -- Problems in translating ancient Greek astrological texts -- Section V: Ways to express ancient mathematical concepts in modern language -- From the cave into reality: Mathematics and cultures -- Translating rational-practice texts -- How to transfer the conceptual structure of Old Babylonian mathematics: Solutions and inherent problems. With an Italian parallel -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455968103321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (450 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.3 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ImhausenAnnette
PommereningTanja |
Collana | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde |
Soggetto topico |
Learning and scholarship - History - To 1500
Science, Ancient - History Scientific literature - Translating Scientific literature - Greece - History and criticism Scientific literature - Middle East - History and criticism Scientific literature - Rome - History and criticism Translating and interpreting - Philosophy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural History
Egyptology History of Science Philology Science of Translation |
ISBN |
1-282-93422-8
9786612934223 3-11-022993-5 |
Classificazione | FB 6095 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Translating ancient scientific texts -- Section I: Language as a feature of a scientific discipline -- Gegenstand und Methode: Sprachliche Erkenntnistechniken in der keilschriftlichen Überlieferung Mesopotamiens -- Das Verhältnis von medizinischer Prognose zur religiösen Divinatorik/Mantik in Griechenland -- Präzision in der Prognose oder: Divination als Wissenschaft -- Zur Rolle des Fachwortschatzes in der Naturalis historia des Älteren Plinius -- Section II: Translations of ancient scholars -- Translating the Phainomenaacross genre, language and culture -- Translating the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars -- Section III: Problems of translating ancient medical texts and possible solutions -- Von Impotenz und Migräne - eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Übersetzungen des Papyrus Ebers -- Rechts oder links - wörtlich oder dem Sinn nach? -- The lamp and the mirror, or: Some comments on the ancient understanding of Mesopotamian medical manuscripts -- Zur Neuedition des hieratisch-demotischen Papyrus Wien D 6257 aus römischer Zeit -- A recipe for a headache: Translating and interpreting ancient Greek and Roman remedies -- Section IV: Problems and methods in translating astronomical-astrological texts -- Ancient Egyptian star tables: A reinterpretation of their fundamental structure -- Methods for understanding and reconstructing Babylonian predicting rules -- Problems in translating ancient Greek astrological texts -- Section V: Ways to express ancient mathematical concepts in modern language -- From the cave into reality: Mathematics and cultures -- Translating rational-practice texts -- How to transfer the conceptual structure of Old Babylonian mathematics: Solutions and inherent problems. With an Italian parallel -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780722103321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece / / edited by Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (450 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.3 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ImhausenAnnette
PommereningTanja |
Collana | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde |
Soggetto topico |
Learning and scholarship - History - To 1500
Science, Ancient - History Scientific literature - Translating Scientific literature - Greece - History and criticism Scientific literature - Middle East - History and criticism Scientific literature - Rome - History and criticism Translating and interpreting - Philosophy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural History
Egyptology History of Science Philology Science of Translation |
ISBN |
1-282-93422-8
9786612934223 3-11-022993-5 |
Classificazione | FB 6095 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Translating ancient scientific texts -- Section I: Language as a feature of a scientific discipline -- Gegenstand und Methode: Sprachliche Erkenntnistechniken in der keilschriftlichen Überlieferung Mesopotamiens -- Das Verhältnis von medizinischer Prognose zur religiösen Divinatorik/Mantik in Griechenland -- Präzision in der Prognose oder: Divination als Wissenschaft -- Zur Rolle des Fachwortschatzes in der Naturalis historia des Älteren Plinius -- Section II: Translations of ancient scholars -- Translating the Phainomenaacross genre, language and culture -- Translating the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars -- Section III: Problems of translating ancient medical texts and possible solutions -- Von Impotenz und Migräne - eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Übersetzungen des Papyrus Ebers -- Rechts oder links - wörtlich oder dem Sinn nach? -- The lamp and the mirror, or: Some comments on the ancient understanding of Mesopotamian medical manuscripts -- Zur Neuedition des hieratisch-demotischen Papyrus Wien D 6257 aus römischer Zeit -- A recipe for a headache: Translating and interpreting ancient Greek and Roman remedies -- Section IV: Problems and methods in translating astronomical-astrological texts -- Ancient Egyptian star tables: A reinterpretation of their fundamental structure -- Methods for understanding and reconstructing Babylonian predicting rules -- Problems in translating ancient Greek astrological texts -- Section V: Ways to express ancient mathematical concepts in modern language -- From the cave into reality: Mathematics and cultures -- Translating rational-practice texts -- How to transfer the conceptual structure of Old Babylonian mathematics: Solutions and inherent problems. With an Italian parallel -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819845703321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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