De temporum ratione :: Quadrivium und Gotteserkenntnis am Beispiel Abbos von Fleury und Hermanns von Reichenau /

This study examines the scientific interests and rationality which find expression in the quadrivial sources of the 9th to 11th centuries, arguing on this basis for the existence of a 'discovery of nature' already prior to the 12th century. It focuses on the theme of 'time', exem...

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Main Author: Germann, Nadja
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:German
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 89.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This study examines the scientific interests and rationality which find expression in the quadrivial sources of the 9th to 11th centuries, arguing on this basis for the existence of a 'discovery of nature' already prior to the 12th century. It focuses on the theme of 'time', exemplified by Abbo of Fleury's Computus, as well as Hermann of Reichenau's Epistola de quantitate mensis lunaris, Abbreviatio compoti and Prognostica. The systematic and historical background of the study is established through analysis of Alcuin's De vera philosophia, Bede's De temporum ratione and the computistic-astronomical anthologies which were the predominant genre during this period. The volume is complemented by fourteen illustrations and an appendix including Hermann's heretofore unedited texts, the Abbreviatio compoti and Prognostica.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 384 pages 14 pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-368) and indexes.
ISBN:9789047411017
9047411013
ISSN:0169-8028 ;

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