Title: Learned antiquity : scholarship and society in the Near East, the Greco-Roman world, and the early medieval West /
Authors: MacDonald, A. A.; Twomey, Michael W.; Reinink, G. J.
Publisher: Peeters,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Learning and scholarship History Congresses.; Literature, Ancient History and criticism Congresses.; Religious thought Congresses.; Religious thought Congresses.; Science, Ancient History Congresses.
Contents: The scientific revolution of 700 BC / David Brown -- Berossos and the Mesopotamian temple as centre of knowledge during the Hellenistic period / Geert de Breucker -- The Gospels and cognitive science / István Czachesz -- Bridging the gulf between transcendence and immanence in late antiquity / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Talmudic tradition in a changing society / Wout van Bekkum -- Between Tertullian and Vincentius Lirinensis : on the concept constantia veritatis and other "Christian" influences on Solinus / Zweder von Martels -- The Corpus iuris civilis : codification and the encyclopedia of legal knowledge / Bernard H. Stolte -- Between tradition and cultural change : the poetic and documentary production of Dioscorus of Aphrodite / Jean-Luc Fournet -- Dioscorus and the law / Peter van Minnen -- A world full of the Word : the Biblical learning of Dioscorus / Jitse H.F. Dijkstra -- Literary culture in sixth-century Egypt / Teresa Morgan -- Theology and medicine in Jundishapur : cultural change in the Nestorian school tradition / Gerrit J. Reinink -- Carolingian bishops and Christian antiquity : distance from the past, canon-formation, and imperial power / Michael E. Hönicke Moore -- The study of Martianus Capella's De nuptiis in the ninth cetury / Mariken Teeuwen.