Exzerpieren - Kompilieren - Tradieren
Subtitle: Transformationen des Wissens Zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2016
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9783110501261
Subjects: Social change; Knowledge, theory of; Transmission of texts; Complexity (philosophy); Rome, intellectual life; Europe, intellectual life
Description: "This study examines from multiple disciplinary perspectives the phenomenon of how knowledge was transformed and transmitted between late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The essays explore the ways that excerpting, compiling, and selective transmission resulted in a reduction of complexity."--