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Author | : Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Neoplatonism |
ISBN | : 9780231096287 |
Download Commentary on the Dream of Scipio Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Douglas Kelly |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004115606 |
Download The Conspiracy of Allusion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A reference to Macrobius by Chretien de Troyes links his own writing and, by implication, medieval writing in general, to the larger late antique and medieval Latin conception of rewriting as original imitation.
Author | : Marion Dolan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319567845 |
Download Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries. Aratus' 270 B.C.E. Greek poem describing the constellations and astrological phenomena was translated and copied over 800 years into illuminated manuscripts that preserved and illustrated these ancient stories about the constellations. The Aratea survives in its entirety due to multiple translations from Greek to Latin and even to Arabic, with many illuminated versions being commissioned over the ages. The survey encompasses four interrelated disciplines: history of literature, history of myth, history of science, and history of art. Aratea manuscripts by their nature are a meeting place of these distinct branches, and the culling of information from historical literature and from the manuscripts themselves focuses on a wider, holistic view; a narrow approach could not provide a proper prospective. What is most essential to know about this work is that because of its successive incarnations it has survived and been reinterpreted through the centuries, which speaks to its importance in all of these disciplines. This book brings a better understanding of the history, changes and transmission of the original astronomical Phaenomena poem. Historians, art historians, astronomy lovers, and historians of astronomy will learn more specialized details concerning the Aratea and how the tradition survived from the Middle Ages. It is a credit to the poetry of Aratus and the later interpreters of the text that its pagan aspects were not edited nor removed, but respected and maintained in the exact same form despite the fact that all sixty Aratea manuscripts mentioned in this study were produced under the rule of Christianity.
Author | : Princeton University. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Iain Pears |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2010-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307370887 |
Download The Dream of Scipio Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.
Author | : Guillaume (de Lorris) |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1995-07-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780691044569 |
Download The Romance of the Rose Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical apparatus. Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their understanding of this rich tale about the Lover and his quest--against the admonishments of Reason and the obstacles set by Jealousy and Resistance--to pluck the fair Rose in the Enchanted Garden. The original introduction by Dahlberg remains an excellent overview of the work, covering such topics as the iconographic significance of the imagery and the use of irony in developing the central theme of love. His new preface reviews selected scholarship through 1990, which examines, for example, the sources and influences of the work, the two authors, the nature of the allegorical narrative as a genre, the use of first person, and the poem's early reception. The new bibliographic material incorporates that of the earlier editions. The sixty-four miniature illustrations from thirteenth-and fifteenth-century manuscripts are retained, as are the notes keyed to the Langlois edition, on which the translation is based.
Author | : Bruce Eastwood |
Publisher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780871699435 |
Download Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, Ca. 800-1500 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Early medieval astronomy, esp. in the era of Charlemagne & his successors, consisted of texts that went far beyond the boundaries of computus, which modern scholars have long believed to be the only significant context for astronomical studies of that time. The texts contained innovative diagrams where no other sign of divergence from the text could be seen. Such diagrams were found to provide an indication of understandings of the texts -- which were different from those of modern scholars. Contents: Astronomy & Its Teaching in Carolingian Europe; Functions & Locations of Planetary Diagrams; Sources & Topics of Planetary Diagrams; Plinian Diagrams; Macrobian Diagrams; Calcidian Diagrams; & Capellan Diagrams. Illus. This is a print on demand publication.
Author | : Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Dialogues, Latin |
ISBN | : 9780674996496 |
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Robert A. Kaster is Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin at Princeton University. --Book Jacket.
Author | : Nigel Hiscock |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2018-05-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 135176974X |
Download The Wise Master Builder: Platonic Geometry in Plans of Medieval Abbeys and Cathederals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title was first published in 2000: Did the plan of medieval churches have any underlying symbolic meaning? This work re-opens the debate about the importance of geometry and symbolism in medieval architectural design and argues the case for attributing an intellectual meaning to the planning of abbeys and cathedrals. In challenging prevailing claims for the use of arithmetical rations in architectural design, notably those based on the square root of two, Dr Hiscock advances a perspective consisting of proportions derived from the figures of Platonic geometry - the square, the equilateral triangle and the pentagon - and provides evidence for the symbolic interpretation of these figures. The investigation further reveals whole series of geometric relationships between some of England's most celebrated Norman cathedrals, such as Norwich or Durham, together with a wide sample from the Continent, from Old St Peter's in Rome to Chartres Cathedral, and sets out a comprehensive design method in each case. Hiscock first demonstrates the proposition that the ideas of Christian Platonism, including number and geometry, remained current and were employed in the thought of the early Middle Ages. In particular, he argues that they can be associated with the leading persons in the 10th-century revival of monasticism and that they found expression in the "white mantle of churches" that spread across Western Europe at the end of the first millennium AD. The book then provides a detailed analysis of the geometric proportions of church plans between the 9th and 12th centuries in Germany, France and in England. This research seeks to demonstrate that a coherent sequence of geometric forms can be seen in thse plans, forms which correspond to the key figures of Platonic geometry as understood in the context of Christian Platonist thought. In conclusion, the author shows how the system of design proposed could be set out on site using the known working methods of medieval masons.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Elegiac poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : |
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