Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes : Western scholarly networks and debates / edited by Dragos Calma.
"Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus' legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus' Elements of The...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English French Latin |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]-
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| Series: | Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ;
v. 22. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access: Vol. 1 JSTOR Open Access: Vol. 3 |
| Summary: | "Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus' legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus' Elements of Theology and Plotinus' Enneads, is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus' Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries"-- |
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| Item Description: | "The majority of contributions reunited in this volume were first presented during the first of the three sessions of the conference "Les Elements de theologie et le Livre des causes du Ve au XVIIe siecle". It took place at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, Paris, on 13-14 November 2015.... The second took place on 12-13 February 2016, and the third on 14-15-16 April 2016. Compared to the original program of the three conferences, minor thematic rearrangements have been made for publication. Irene Zavattero presented her paper during the second session and I presented mine during the third session of the conference. Stephen Gersh's paper will be published in the second volume and Isabelle Moulin's in the third volume. The paper by Barbara Bartocci was not delivered at the conference, yet I am happy to integrate it in the volume. Andrea A. Robiglio delivered a paper but could send it for publication. I wish to express my deepest gratitude to all the scholars presenting and / or publishing their papers, and also to those who chaired the sessions: Philippe Hoffmann, Olivier Boulnois, Luca Bianchi and Richard Taylor."--Introduction, pages 1-2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations (some colour). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004345108 9004395113 9789004345102 9789004395114 |
| ISSN: | 1871-188x ; |