| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Series |
Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 0076-9754 ; volume 47 |
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Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; volume 47.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; A Note on Texts and Translations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Bernard and the Schools of Tours; The City and Its Schools; Ars dictaminis; Poetry and Imitation; Chapter 2 The Science of the Cosmographia; The Mixed Form; Platonic Themes and Variations; Medicine and Astrology; The Purpose of Natural Science; Chapter 3 The Theology of the Cosmographia; Platonism and Christianity; The Trinity; The Fall; The Incarnation; The Function of integumentum; Chapter 4 Bernard's Readers; The Standard Gloss; The Laudian Gloss; Quotation and Imitation |
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Alan of Lille and Peter LombardConclusion; Appendix I Synopsis of the Cosmographia; Appendix II Census of Cosmographia Manuscripts; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; General Index |
| Summary |
In Authority and Imitation Mark Kauntze presents a new reading of the twelfth-century Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris, showing how this allegory of creation adapted ancient authorities to contemporary debates about natural philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bernard Silvestris, active 1136. Cosmographia.
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Bernard Silvestris, active 1136 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bernard Silvestris, active 1136 fast |
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Bernardus Silvestris -1160 De mundi universitate sive megacosmos et microcosmos gnd |
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Cosmographia (Bernard Silvestris) fast |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
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Cosmology, Medieval -- Poetry
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Medieval.
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Cosmology, Medieval
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Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Intellectual life
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Literature, Medieval
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Tours (France) -- Intellectual life
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| Subject |
France -- Tours
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004268357 |
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9004268359 |
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