Agents and Agencies? The Many Facets of Translation in Byzantine Medicine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. A note on the forms of personal and institutional names IX
5. Introduction: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation 1
6. Agents and Agencies? The Many Facets of Translation in Byzantine Medicine 13
7. Galenism at the ʿAbbāsid Court 39
8. A New Catalogue of Medieval Translations into Latin of Texts on Astronomy and Astrology 63
9. Bernat Metge and Hasdai Crescas: A Conversation 77
10. Transmitting the Astrolabe: Chaucer, Islamic Astronomy, and the Astrolabic Text 85
11. Literary criticism in the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses 121
12. On the Individuality of the Medieval Translator 133
13. Charles I of Anjou as Initiator of the Liber Continens Translation: Patronage Between Foreign Affairs and Medical Interest 145
14. The Transmission of Azarquiel’s Magic Squares in Latin Europe 159
15. On the Integration of Islamic and Jewish Thought: An Unknown Project Proposal by Shlomo Pines 199
16. Index 209