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1 online resource (233 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Mittellateinische Studien und Texte,
0076-9754 ;
volume 47
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Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; volume 47.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Alan of Lille and Peter LombardConclusion; Appendix I Synopsis of the Cosmographia; Appendix II Census of Cosmographia Manuscripts; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; General Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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Bernard Silvestris, active 1136. Cosmographia.
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Bernard Silvestris, active 1136 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bernard Silvestris, active 1136. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Bernardus, Silvestris, approximately 1080-1167. |
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Cosmographia (Bernard Silvestris) |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval. |
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Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism.
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Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
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Cosmology, Medieval -- Poetry.
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Cosmology, Medieval. |
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Poetry.
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Tours (France) -- Intellectual life.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kauntze, Mark. Authority and Imitation. Leiden : BRILL, 2014 9789004268357 |
| ISBN |
9789004268357 (electronic book) |
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9004268359 (electronic book) |
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9789004256910 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9004256911 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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