It is well known that medieval Europe owes most of its scientific learning to the translations of Arabic treatises made in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The earliest Arabic infiltrations in Latin science are however much older. They can be traced back to the tenth century and to the making, in Catalonia, of a large corpus of astrological treatises: the Alchandreana. Based mainly on Arabic sources, but also on Hebrew and Latin sources, the Alchandreana constitute an exceptional testimony of cross-cultural exchanges between Christian, Arabic and Jewish scholars before the turn of the first millenium. This book offers a historical study, a technical analysis and a critical edition of the whole corpus.
Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, vol. 2
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Les Alchandreana primitifs: Étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d'origine arabe (Xe siècle)
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Les Alchandreana primitifs: Étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d'origine arabe (Xe siècle)
"Dieses magnum opus gehört in jede historische Bibliothek, weil es wegen der seriösen Grundlagenarbeit in der kulturgeschichtlichen Forschung vermütlich grosse Wrkung entfalten wird" Uta Lindgren, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters. 65,1 (2009), 255-256.
"Désormais, cette somme remarquable viendra remplacer définitivement, dans les notes bibliographiques de la littérature aux 'experimental sciences', toutes les petites contributions ou hypothèses prudentes sur l'identité d'Alchandreus et de tous ses avatars." Isabelle Draelants, Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis 3-4 (2008) 873-876.
‘’Un livre qui démontre, s'il en était besoin, la manière dont l’érudition dans des domaines en apparence inattendus peut faire progresser la connaissance historique d’un grand pas.” Nicolas Weil-Parot, University Paris-Est Créteil. In: Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 55, 2012, p. 190.
Published date: Apr 24, 2007
Language: French
No. of Pages: 736
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9789004158276
Dimensions:
6.299212598" W x
1.0" L x
9.448818897" H
David Juste, Ph.D. (2000) in History, Université Libre de Bruxelles, is currently a Research Fellow in the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney.
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