The limits of exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine literature and textual transmission: fourth international conference of Prolepsis Asso…
by Bruno, Nicoletta, Dovico, Giulia, Montepaone, Olivia, Pelucchi, Marco, Prolepsis., International Postgraduate Conference, Bari, Italie)
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Building on Calvino's observations on Exactitude in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the present book elucidates on the possible definitions of exactitude, the endeavor of reaching exactitude, and the undeniable limits to the achievement of this ambitious milestone. The eighte…
"The German mystic Gertrude the Great of Helfta (ca. 1256-1301) is a globally venerated saint who is still central to the Sacred Heart Devotion. Her visions were first recorded in Latin, and they inspired generations of readers in processes of creative rewriting. The vernacular …
The Physiologus is an ancient Christian collection of astonishing stories about animals, stones, and plants that serve as positive or negative models for Christians. Written originally in Greek, the Physiologus was translated in ancient times into Latin, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic…
"Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the …
Dies ist die erste vollständige Übersicht aller griechischen Textzeugnisse anonymer, pseudepigrapherund fragmentarischer Art,die das antike Judentum hinterlassen hat, einschliesslich deren Übersetzungen in westliche oder orientalische Sprachen. Jede Schrift wird nach den Regeln …
"This book offers a new material history of the Jesus tradition. Keith shows that the introduction of manuscripts to the transmission of the Jesus tradition played an underappreciated, but crucial, role in the reception history of the tradition that eventuated. He focuses partic…
"It is often presumed that biblical redaction was invariably done using conventional scribal methods, meaning that when editors sought to modify or compile existing texts, they would do so in the process of rewriting them upon new scrolls. There is, however, substantial evidence…
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen' presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, …
