The medieval West meets the rest of the world
By: general editor, Nancy van Deusen.
Contributors: Van Deusen, Nancy; White, Lynn Townsend, 1907-; Institute of Mediaeval Music.
Series: Claremont cultural studies; Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen ;; Bd. 62/2 =; Musicological studies ;; vol. 62/2; Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (Institute of Mediaeval Music) ;; Bd. 62/2.
Publisher: Institute of Mediaeval Music
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: East and West -- Congresses; Civilization, Medieval -- Congresses; Music -- 500-1400 -- Congresses; Arts, Medieval -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
The conference, East Meets West: The Resonance of Medieval European Concepts with the Rest of the World, was held to honor the memory of Lynn White, Jr., February 9-10, 1990, at California State University, Northridge--P. vi.
Table of contents: title: Yin and yang as insignia of the Armigeri / Gunar Freibergs; title: Great chain of nothing / Crerar Douglas; title: The cookie computus / Barnabas B. Hughes; title: The role of Alfred of Sarashel in the dissemination of Eastern medical learning in the Latin West / James K. Otte; title: Nicolas of Cusa and the Sixth Patriarch / Kees W. Bolle; title: Medieval concepts and their resonance / James Porter; title: The medieval concept and genres of musica vulgaris / Doris Stockmann; title: Bipolarity and the fifth interval in gamelan and medieval European music / José Maceda; title: Procession without progress / Nancy van Deusen; title: King Arthur and the "Sarmatian connection" / C. Scott Littleton; title: The Alan of Lot / Linda A. Malcor.