Aristotle's Problemata in Different Times and Tongues (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Band 39) - Softcover

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9789058675248: Aristotle's Problemata in Different Times and Tongues (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Band 39)

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The present volume contains a collection of papers on the reception of Aristotle's Problemata, a multifaceted text asking various questions about medical, scientific or everyday topics. This text is one of the most neglected Aristotelian treatises, because of its heterogeneous character and its so-called 'inauthenticity'. It has been the subject of a complex transmission. In ancient times, Aristotle's text has been augmented and adapted, while still other authors composed similar collections of Problemata. In the Middle Ages,Problemata collections have been translated into Arabic, Latin, and Middle French, each translation being characterized by its own particularities. The Latin translation lead to an extremely influential commentary by the Italian physician Peter of Abano, whereas Evrart de Conty, who made the Middle French translation, added himself a commentary to each discussed problem, often using Peter of Abano's text as source. Also in the Renaissance, theProblemata appealed to the interest of physicians and philosophers. In their contributions to this book, the authors analyse this complex web of relations between source-texts, translations, and commentaries, in different times and tongues.

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

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The inheritance of ancient knowledge deeply influenced medieval thought. The writings of ancient philosophers like Aristotle reached medieval man primarily through translations. These translations became the subject of commentaries. It is this complex web of relations between source-texts, translations and commentaries that has to be grasped to evaluate how scientific thinking evolved during the Middle Ages. This book is dedicated to Aristotle’s Problemata, a text asking various questions about scientific and everyday topics. The contributors examine the transmission of the Problemata in different time periods and in different languages.

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