Authority and imitation : a study of the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris / by Mark Kauntze.
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TextSeries: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; volume 47.Publisher: Leiden : Brill, 2014Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type: - text
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- Bernard Silvestris, active 1136. Cosmographia
- Bernard Silvestris, active 1136 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Bernard Silvestris, active 1136
- Cosmographia (Bernard Silvestris)
- Bernardus Silvestris -1160 De mundi universitate sive megacosmos et microcosmos
- Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
- Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
- Cosmology, Medieval -- Poetry
- Tours (France) -- Intellectual life
- Littérature médiévale -- Histoire et critique
- Poésie didactique latine médiévale et moderne -- Histoire et critique
- Cosmologie médiévale -- Poésie
- PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Medieval
- Cosmology, Medieval
- Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Intellectual life
- Literature, Medieval
- France -- Tours
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- PA8275.B25 C634 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; A Note on Texts and Translations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Bernard and the Schools of Tours; The City and Its Schools; Ars dictaminis; Poetry and Imitation; Chapter 2 The Science of the Cosmographia; The Mixed Form; Platonic Themes and Variations; Medicine and Astrology; The Purpose of Natural Science; Chapter 3 The Theology of the Cosmographia; Platonism and Christianity; The Trinity; The Fall; The Incarnation; The Function of integumentum; Chapter 4 Bernard's Readers; The Standard Gloss; The Laudian Gloss; Quotation and Imitation.
Alan of Lille and Peter LombardConclusion; Appendix I Synopsis of the Cosmographia; Appendix II Census of Cosmographia Manuscripts; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; General Index.
In Authority and Imitation Mark Kauntze presents a new reading of the twelfth-century Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris, showing how this allegory of creation adapted ancient authorities to contemporary debates about natural philosophy.
English.
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