Christian Meyer Pietro d’Abano, Expositio problematum (XIX)

Édition, introduction et notes critiques et explicatives

Pietro d'Abano (c. 1257-1315) est l'un des principaux commentateurs des Problemata aristotéliciens (c. 250 avant J.-Chr.) dont la section XIX traite de divers aspects du son et de la musique vocale et instrumentale. Rédigé autour de 1300 et largement diffusé aux XIVe et XVe siècles, le commentaire des cinquante problèmes de cette section développe un discours novateur sur la perception du chant et de la musique instrumentale et leurs effets. Partagé entre raison et sensibilité, il est dominé par...

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Frans, PDF, 2,4 MB, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2022

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The body as a mirror of the soul

physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance

The idea of the body as a mirror of the soul has fascinated mankind throughout history. Being able to see through an individual, and drawing conclusions on their character solely based on a selection of external features, is the subject of physiognomy, and has a long tradition running well into recent times. However, the pre-modern, especially medieval background of this discipline has remained underexplored. The selected case studies in this volume each contribute to a better understanding of the...

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Engels, PDF, 8,7 MB, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2021

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Knighthood and society in the High Middle Ages

In popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition of differing national perspectives and ideological assumptions, few phenomena have continued to be the object of so much academic debate. In this volume leading scholars explore various aspects of knightly identity, taking into account both commonalities and particularities across Western Europe. Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages...

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Engels, PDF, 17 MB, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2020

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Fabio Acerbi, Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem La transmission du savoir grec en Occident

Guillaume de Moerbeke, le Laur. Plut. 87.25 (Thémistius, in De an.) et la bibliothèque de Boniface VIII

Mise au point définitive de l'épisode central de la transmission du savoir grec en Occident. Les relations entre la bibliothèque papale à la fin du XIIIe siècle et le célèbre traducteur Guillaume de Moerbeke constituent l'épisode central de la transmission du savoir grec en Occident. Ce livre présente une mise au point définitive de la question, en prenant comme cas d'étude une traduction de Moerbeke dont le modèle grec, actuellement conservé à Florence, faisait partie de la bibliothèque de pape...

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Frans, PDF, 9 MB, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2019

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Stephan Dusil Wissensordnungen des Rechts im Wandel

Päpstlicher Jurisdiktionsprimat und Zölibat zwischen 1000 und 1215

Die Studie untersucht die Ordnung des mittelalterlichen Rechtswissens in vorgratianischen Sammlungen, dem Decretum Gratiani sowie den Glossen und Summen zum Dekret. Im Mittelpunkt steht also das kirchenrechtliche Wissen, das sich zwischen 1000 und 1215 grundlegend änderte: Während kirchliche Rechtsregeln um 1000 in Kanonessammlungen linear gespeichert waren, wurden sie im 12. Jahrhundert zu komplexem Rechtswissen miteinander verknüpft. Auf Basis einer umfassenden Auswertung der handschriftlichen...

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Duits, 629 pagina's (PDF, 4,1 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2018

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Translating at the court

Bartholomew of Messina and cultural life at the court of Manfred, King of Sicily

The importance of Bartholomew's oeuvre and cultural life under the reign of Manfred. An important chapter in the rediscovery of Aristotle in the Middle Ages is the oeuvre of Bartholomew of Messina (Bartholomaeus de Messana), a translator at the court of Manfred, King of Sicily (1258-1266). However, the impact of both Bartholomew and Manfred on the cultural and intellectual life of their time remains understudied, especially in comparison to the attention received by the translator's contemporary,...

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Duits, Engels, Frans, Italiaans, 426 pagina's (PDF, 8 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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"Lors est ce jour grant joie nee"

essais de langue et de littérature françaises du Moyen Âge

This volume gathers eight contributions regarding the French medieval language and literature. They are a selection of papers presented during a colloquium organized in honor of Prof. Emeritus Willy Van Hoecke, whose passion for French diachronic linguistics and medieval literature has driven him to develop some techniques for critical text edition, applied to the oeuvre of Baudouin de Condé, techniques which he also used for the edition of Jean d'Antioche's Rectorique de Marc Tulles Cyceron. The...

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Frans, 214 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB), Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven, 2017

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Ecclesia in medio nationis

reflections on the study of monasticism in the central Middle Ages

The role of monastic institutions in society during the Central Middle Ages has been much debated in medieval studies. Some scholars saw monasticism as the principal motivator of economic, social, intellectual and 'spiritual' progress in human society, while others regarded monastic ideology as fundamentally anti-social and oriented towards itself. These debates seem to have lost some of their relevance to the present-day scholar. Today monasticism is studied as a social entity which needed interactions...

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Frans, Engels, 200 pagina's (PDF, 26 MB), Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven, 2017

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Aristotle's "Problemata" in different times and tongues

The present volume contains a collection of papers on the reception of Aristotle's Problemata, a multifaceted text asking various questions about medical, scientific or everyday topics. This text is one of the most neglected Aristotelian treatises, because of its heterogeneous character and its so-called 'inauthenticity'. It has been the subject of a complex transmission. In ancient times, Aristotle's text has been augmented and adapted, while still other authors composed similar collections of Problemata....

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Engels, Frans, 326 pagina's (PDF, 4,7 MB), Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven, 2017

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The use and abuse of sacred places in late medieval towns

Congresbijdragen over de maatschappelijke betekenis en het wereldlijke nevengebruik van kerk- en kloostergebouwen in West-Europa tijdens de middeleeuwen.

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Engels, Duits, 248 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Paganism in the Middle Ages

threat and fascination

Interdisciplinary study of pagan culture from late antiquity to the emergent Renaissance. In this volume the persistence, resurgence, threat, fascination, and repression of various forms of pagan culture are studied in an interdisciplinary perspective from late antiquity to the emergent Renaissance. Contributions deal with the survival of pagan beliefs and practices, as well as with the Christianization of pagan rural populations or with the different strategies of oppression of pagan beliefs. The...

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Niet gecodeerde talen, 250 pagina's (PDF, 11 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Between text and tradition

Pietro d’Abano and the reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata physica in the Middle Ages

New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations. The commentary of Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source for the investigation of the complex relationship between text, translation, and commentary in a non-curricular part of the corpus Aristotelicum. As the eight articles in this volume show, the study of Pietro's commentary not only provides valuable insights into...

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Engels, Frans, 280 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Medieval manuscripts in transition

tradition and creative recycling

Manuscripts constitute the source material par excellence for diverse academic disciplines. Art historians, philologists, historians, theologians, philosophers, book historians and even jurists encounter one another around the codex. The fact that such an encounter can be extremely fertile was demonstrated, during an international congress in Brussels on November 5-9, 2002. A record of the discussions can be found in this volume of the Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. The editors selected those lectures...

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Frans, Engels, 384 pagina's (PDF, 5,8 MB), Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven, 2017

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Science translated

Latin and vernacular translations of scientific treatises in medieval Europe

Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase....

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Frans, Engels, 478 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB), Leiven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Symbolic communication in late medieval towns

This volume addresses symbolic forms of communication in the late medieval towns of the Low Countries, northern France and the Swiss Confederation. In context of State centralisation, the political autonomy of these towns was threatened by tensions with higher levels of power. Within this conflict both rulers and towns employed symbolic means of communication to legitimise their power position. The intensive use of rituals like theatreplays and gift-exchange demonstrates that symbolic forms of communication...

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Engels, 147 pagina's (PDF, 1,1 MB), Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2017

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Satoshi Kikuchi From Eckhart to Ruusbroec

a critical inheritance of mystical themes in the fourteenth century

In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec, the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec's criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart's condemned propositions in the papal bull In agro dominico. This fact implies that...

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Engels, jpg, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2014

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