TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burnett,Charles
AU  - Chism,Christine
AU  - Comes,Rosa
AU  - Coulson,Frank T.
AU  - Fraenkel,Carlos
AU  - Harvey,Warren Zev
AU  - Hershkovits,Keren Abbou
AU  - Juste,David
AU  - McVaugh,Michael
AU  - Touwaide,Alain
AU  - Veit,Raphaela
AU  - Wallis,Faith
AU  - Wisnovsky,Robert
TI  - Medieval Textual Cultures: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation 
T2  - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation ,
SN  - 9783110465464
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Christian scholars
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Jewish scholars
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Muslim scholars
KW  - Science and the humanities
KW  - Translating and interpreting
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - Altphilologie
KW  - Mediävistik
KW  - Textualität
KW  - Überlieferung
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Classics
KW  - Medieval
KW  - Textuality
KW  - Transmission
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of Contents --; A note on the forms of personal and institutional names --; Introduction: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation --; Agents and Agencies? The Many Facets of Translation in Byzantine Medicine --; Galenism at the ʿAbbāsid Court --; A New Catalogue of Medieval Translations into Latin of Texts on Astronomy and Astrology --; Bernat Metge and Hasdai Crescas: A Conversation --; Transmitting the Astrolabe: Chaucer, Islamic Astronomy, and the Astrolabic Text --; Literary criticism in the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses --; On the Individuality of the Medieval Translator --; Charles I of Anjou as Initiator of the Liber Continens Translation: Patronage Between Foreign Affairs and Medical Interest --; The Transmission of Azarquiel’s Magic Squares in Latin Europe --; On the Integration of Islamic and Jewish Thought: An Unknown Project Proposal by Shlomo Pines --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translating, and transforming -- the "agents". The subject matter ranges from medicine to astronomy, literature to magic, while the cultural context encompasses Islamic and Jewish societies, as well as Byzantium and the Latin West. What unites these studies is their attention to the methodological and conceptual challenges of thinking about agency. Not every agent acted with an agenda, and agenda were sometimes driven by immediate needs or religious considerations that while compelling to the actors, are more opaque to us. What does it mean to say that a text becomes “available” for transmission or translation? And why do some texts, once transmitted, fail to thrive in their new milieu? This collection thus points toward a more sophisticated “ecology” of transmission, where not only individuals and teams of individuals, but also social spaces and local cultures, act as the agents of cultural creativity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110467307
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110467307
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110467307/original
ER  -