Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cipriani, Mattia; Polloni, Nicola

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on this tension between order and randomness, and idealisation and reality of nature in the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000599978
• Artikelnr.: 63751215

Autorenporträt

Mattia Cipriani currently holds an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on Thomas of Cantimpré's Liber de natura rerum, on medieval encyclopaedism, and on the transmission of naturalistic ideas and texts. Nicola Polloni has worked at the universities of Pavia, Durham, and Berlin. Since 2020, he is FWO Senior Research Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium. His research expands cross-disciplinarily on medieval hylomorphism and theories of matter.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Zoological Inconsistency and Confusion in the Physiologus latinus
/ Chapter 2 Gerald of Wales and Saint Brigid's Falcon: The Chaste Beast in
Medieval and Early Modern Irish Natural History / Chapter 3 Medieval
Universes in Disorder: Primeval Chaos and Its Authoritative Coordinates /
Chapter 4 Animals under an Encyclopedic Lens: Zoological Misinterpretation
in Thomas of Cantimpré's Liber de Natura Rerum / Chapter 5 Learning from
Bees, Wasps, and Ants: Communal Norms, Social Practices, and Contingencies
of Nature in Medieval Insect Allegories / Chapter 6 Defining and Picturing
Elements and Humours in Medieval Medicine: Text and Images in Bartholomew
the Englishman's De Proprietatibus Rerum / Chapter 7 Why Do Animals Have
Parts? Organs and Organisation in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century Latin
Commentaries on Aristotle's De animalibus / Chapter 8 La reproduction
imparfaite: les "gusanes" et l'état larvaire des insectes chez Albert le
Grand / Chapter 9 Elixir as Means of Contrasting with Nature in Albert the
Great's Alchemy / Chapter 10 From Prime Matter to Chaos in Ramon Llull