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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.
Pieter De Leemans and Michèle Goyens
Introduction
Joan Cadden
Preliminary Observations on the Place of the Problemata in Medieval Learning
Robert W. Sharples
Pseudo-Alexander or Pseudo-Aristotle, Medical Puzzles and Physical Problems
Lou S. Filius
The Genre Problemata in Arabic: Its Motions and Changes
Graziella Federici Vescovini
L’Expositio Succinta Problematum Aristotelis de Pierre d’Abano
Maaike Van der Lugt
Aristotle’s Problems in the West: A Contribution to the Study of Medieval Latin Tradition
Iolanda Ventura
Aristoteles fuit causa efficiens huius libri: On the Reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata in Late Medieval Encyclopaedic Culture
Françoise Guichard-Tesson
Evrart de Conty, poète, traducteur et commentateur
Caroline Boucher
Des problèmes pour exercer l’entendement des lecteurs: Evrart de Conty, Nicole Oresme et la recherche de la nouveauté
Joëlle Ducos
Lectures et vulgarisation du savoir aristotélicien: les gloses d’Evrart de Conty (sections XXV-XXVI)
Geneviève Dumas
Evrart de Conty et Pierre d’Abano: commentateurs d’Aristote
Annelies Bloem
A la recherche de la subjectivité dans les Problèmes d’Evrart de Conty: un commentateur juché sur les épaules d’Aristote?
John Monfasani
George of Trebizond’s Critique of Theodore Gaza’s Translation of the Aristotelian Problemata
Selected Bibliography
Index codicum manu scriptorum
Index auctorum
Frequently Asked Questions
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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.
Who edited "Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times and Tongues"?
"Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times and Tongues" was edited by Pieter De Leemans and Michele Goyens.
Pieter De Leemans is professor at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy (KU Leuven) and academic secretary of the Aristotles Latinus. - Hoger Instituut van Wijsbegeerte, KU Leuven
Is "Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times and Tongues" part of a series?
Yes, "Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times and Tongues" is part of the "Mediaevalia Lovaniensia" series. It's book 39 in the series.
The longstanding, peer-reviewed book series Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. Studies in Medieval History, Society, and Culture publishes high-quality scholarship on the history and culture of the Middle Ages (c. 500–1550). Topics of particular interest to the series include, but are not limited to, social behaviour and power relations in medieval society, processes of identity formation, religious and urban culture, medieval thought and literature, and gender history. The series focuses on Europe and the wider Mediterranean world and is particularly rich in interdisciplinary approaches. By means of monographs and edited volumes, the series explores thematic frontiers and embraces innovative methodological approaches in historical and philological scholarship that is based on an in-depth source-based study.
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Jelle Haemers (KU Leuven)
Jeroen Deploige (Ghent University)
Brigitte Meijns (KU Leuven)
Chanelle Delameillieure (KU Leuven - KULAK)
Baudouin Van den Abeele (UCLouvain)
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What is the Table of Contents for "Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times and Tongues"?
Pieter De Leemans and Michèle Goyens
Introduction
Joan Cadden
Preliminary Observations on the Place of the Problemata in Medieval Learning
Robert W. Sharples
Pseudo-Alexander or Pseudo-Aristotle, Medical Puzzles and Physical Problems
Lou S. Filius
The Genre Problemata in Arabic: Its Motions and Changes
Graziella Federici Vescovini
L'Expositio Succinta Problematum Aristotelis de Pierre d'Abano
Maaike Van der Lugt
Aristotle's Problems in the West: A Contribution to the Study of Medieval Latin Tradition
Iolanda Ventura
Aristoteles fuit causa efficiens huius libri: On the Reception of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata in Late Medieval Encyclopaedic Culture
Françoise Guichard-Tesson
Evrart de Conty, poète, traducteur et commentateur
Caroline Boucher
Des problèmes pour exercer l'entendement des lecteurs: Evrart de Conty, Nicole Oresme et la recherche de la nouveauté
Joëlle Ducos
Lectures et vulgarisation du savoir aristotélicien: les gloses d'Evrart de Conty (sections XXV-XXVI)
Geneviève Dumas
Evrart de Conty et Pierre d'Abano: commentateurs d'Aristote
Annelies Bloem
A la recherche de la subjectivité dans les Problèmes d'Evrart de Conty: un commentateur juché sur les épaules d'Aristote?
John Monfasani
George of Trebizond's Critique of Theodore Gaza's Translation of the Aristotelian Problemata
Selected Bibliography
Index codicum manu scriptorum
Index auctorum
What is the DOI for "Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times and Tongues"?
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Aristotle’s Problemata in Different Times and Tongues" is 10.11116/9789461661166.
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