Avicenna In Renaissance Italy

Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781400858651

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Avicenna in Renaissance Italy by Nancy G. Siraisi Pdf

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especially on its role in the university teaching of philosophy of medicine and physiological theory. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608064904

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Avicenna in Renaissance Italy by Nancy G. Siraisi Pdf

Author : Siraisi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004474833

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Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250-1600 by Siraisi Pdf

This volume collects essays published in the last 20 years. They deal with medicine in the university world of thirteenth to sixteenth century Italy, discussing both the internal academic milieu of teaching and learning and its relation to the lively urban social, economic, and cultural context in which medieval and Renaissance Italian university medicine grew up. Topics covered include the complex interaction of continuity and change in the transition from scholastic to humanistic medicine; humanist presentations of medical lives; the activities of physicians who moved among the worlds of academic learning, princely courts, and city life; the teaching of practical medicine; the relations of medical and surgical learning and practice; and the influence on medical writing of a variety of elements in the broader surrounding intellectual culture.

Author : Sandra Cavallo,Tessa Storey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199678136

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Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy by Sandra Cavallo,Tessa Storey Pdf

Explores in detail the efforts made by men and women in late Renaissance Italy to stay healthy and prolong their lives.

Author : Peter Heath
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202229

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Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ) by Peter Heath Pdf

Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna's contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna's psychology and poetics and to the ways in which they influenced strains of theological, mystical, and literary thought in subsequent Islamic—and Western—intellectual and religious history. Heath begins by showing how Avicenna's writings fit into the context and general history of Islamic allegory and explores the interaction among allegory, allegoresis, and philosophy in Avicenna's thought. He then provides a brief introduction to Avicenna as an historical figure. From there, he examines the ways in which Avicenna's cosmological, psychological, and epistemological theories find parallel, if diverse, expression in the disparate formats of philosophical and allegorical narration. Included in this book is an illustration of Avicenna's allegorical practice. This takes the form of a translation of the Mi'raj Nama (The Book of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven), a short treatise in Persian generally attributed to Avicenna. The text concludes with an investigation of the literary dimension Avicenna's allegorical theory and practice by examining his use of description metaphor. Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna is an original and important work that breaks new ground by applying the techniques of modern literary criticism to the study of Medieval Islamic philosophy. It will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Islamic and Western literature and philosophy.

Author : Anna Contadini,Charles Burnett,Charles S. F. Burnett
Publisher : Warburg Institute
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015043191744

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Islam and the Italian Renaissance by Anna Contadini,Charles Burnett,Charles S. F. Burnett Pdf

This volume considers aspects of the reciprocal influences between Italian Renaissance culture and that of the Islamic world. The papers on science and philosophy reflect Western scholars' interest in Arabic texts while those on the visual and decorative arts describe the impact of Islamic artefacts, techniques and models on Europe as much as the effects of European influences on Islam. The natural focus of the volume is on Venice and Turkey, but other Italian centres are brought into view and, on the Islamic side, the investigation also encompasses Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks, Persia under the Mongols, Timurids and Safavids, and Mughal India.

Author : Bryan Brazeau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350078949

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The Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond by Bryan Brazeau Pdf

Using new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poetics in early modern Italy. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters examine the current state of the field and set out new directions for future study. The reception of classical texts of literary criticism, such as Horace's Ars Poetica, Longinus's On the Sublime, and most importantly, Aristotle's Poetics was a crucial part of the intellectual culture of Renaissance Italy. Revisiting the translations, commentaries, lectures, and polemic treatises produced, the contributors apply new interdisciplinary methods from book history, translation studies, history of the emotions and classical reception to them. Placing several early modern Italian poetic texts in dialogue with twentieth-century literary theory for the first time, The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond models contemporary practice and maps out avenues for future study.

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674971585

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Success and Suppression by Dag Nikolaus Hasse Pdf

Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004528925

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Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, corpuscles, minima, monads and particles. The reasons for this development are as varied as are the entities that were proposed. This volume covers the period from the earliest commentaries on Lucretius’ De rerum natura to the sources of Newton’s alchemical texts. Contributors examine key developments in Renaissance physiology, meteorology, metaphysics, theology, chymistry and historiography, all of which came to assign a greater explanatory weight to minute entities. These contributions show that there was no simple ‘revival of atomism’, but that the Renaissance confronts us with a diverse and conceptually messy process. Contributors are: Stephen Clucas, Christoph Lüthy, Craig Martin, Elisabeth Moreau, William R. Newman, Elena Nicoli, Sandra Plastina, Kuni Sakamoto, Jole Shackelford, and Leen Spruit.

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1648 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351664455

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004) by Christopher Kleinhenz Pdf

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674973695

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Success and Suppression by Dag Nikolaus Hasse Pdf

Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.

Author : Sarah R. Kyle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351997799

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Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy by Sarah R. Kyle Pdf

"The Carrara Herbal is an exceptional illustrated book of materia medica (therapeutic substances drawn from plants, animals and minerals). It is exceptional in both its illustrations and its content, making it of interest to historians of art and medicine alike. The Herbal contains a translation into Paduan dialect of a Latin version of the mid-thirteenth-century Arabic pharmacopeia, Kitab al-Adwiya al-mufrada (The Book of Simple Medicines), written by Ibn Sarabi, a Christian physician working in al-Andalus and known in the Latin West as Serapion the Younger."--Introduction.

Author : Trevor Dean,K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521411028

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Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy by Trevor Dean,K. J. P. Lowe Pdf

Drawing on a wide body of internationally-renowned scholars, including a core of Italians, this volume focuses on new material and puts crime and disorder in Renaissance Italy firmly in its political and social context. All stages of the judicial process are addressed, from the drafting of new laws to the rounding-up of bandits. Attention is paid both to common crime and to more historically specific crimes, such as sumptuary laws. Attempts to prevent or suppress disorder in private and public life are analysed, and many different types of crime, from the sexual to the political and from the verbal to the physical, are considered. In sum the volume aims to demonstrate the fundamental importance of crime and disorder for the study of the Italian Renaissance. It is the only single-volume treatment available of the subject in English. Other books have studied crime in a single city, or single types of crime, but few have presented a cross-section of articles which deploy diverse methodological approaches in material from many parts of the peninsula.

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Composition (Art)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111039793

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Avicenna's De Anima in the Latin West by Dag Nikolaus Hasse Pdf

In the 12th century the "Book of the Soul" by the philosopher Avicenna was translated from Arabic into Latin. It had an immense success among scholastic writers and deeply influenced the structure and content of many psychological works of the Middle Ages. The reception of Avicenna's book is the story of cultural contact at an imipressively high intellectural level. The present volume investigates this successful reception using two approaches. The first is chronological, tracing the stages by which Avicenna's work was accepted and adapted by Latin scholars. The second is doctrinal, analyzing the fortunes of key doctrines. The sense of the original Arabic text of Avicenna is kept in mind throughout and the degree to which his original Latin interpreters succeeded in conveying it is evaluated.

Author : Lenn Evan Goodman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801472547

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Avicenna by Lenn Evan Goodman Pdf

In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran.