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THE PROSE SALERNITAN QUESTIONS
EDITED FROM A BODLEIAN MANUSCRIPT (AUCT. F. 3. 10) |
| By: |
Brian R. Lawn (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£100.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0197259782 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780197259788 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 August, 1979 |
| Series: |
Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi ABMA Cloth V |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Language: |
English, Latin |
| Description: |
This anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine, written c.1200 by an Englishman, helps to fill a large gap in our knowledge of the scholastic background of the twelfth century, and forms a rich mine of source material for the writings of later thinkers and encyclopaedists up to the seventeenth century. |
| Synopsis: |
The Prose Salernitan Questions here edited from a Bodleian manuscript (Auct. F. 3.10) together with ten other closely related collections, constitute a species of encyclopaedia of scientific and medical knowledge, including sex and gynaecology, dating from about the last quarter of the twelfth century. Coming before the advent of the new Aristotle and the spate of translations from the Arabic, it represents that older learning largely derived from classical Latin and Greek sources, which for a long time formed a significant part of the newer learning of the thirteenth century and later. The concise question and answer form used, with only traces of disputation, gives us a clear insight into how this learning was used in the schools and how it spread, mainly from Salerno, throughout the Latin West. Up till now information on the exact nature and method of diffusion of this older learning has been sadly lacking. These texts help to fill a large gap in our knowledge of the scholastic background of the twelfth century, and they form a rich mine of source material for the writings of later thinkers and encyclopaedists up to the seventeenth century. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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