Limits to learning
Subtitle: the transfer of encyclopaedic knowledge in the early Middle Ages
By: edited by Concetta Giliberto and Loredana Teresi
Series: Mediaevalia Groningana -- new ser., v. 19; Mediaevalia Groningana -- new ser., v. 19.; Storehouses of Wholesome Learning (Project) (Series) -- 3.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9789042927087
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; Medieval; Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern); Manuscripts, English (Old); Congresses; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Transmission of texts; History
Description: "'Storehouse of Wholesome Learning' is a project devoted to the study of miscellaneous and encyclopaedic compilations of the Early Middle Ages. Especially, it seeks to shed light on the transmission and dissemination of encyclopaedic knowledge in Europe, with a special attention to the British Isles."--P. [xiii].
Notes: Proceedings from the third workshop of the project, Storehouses of Wholesome Learning, held in Leeuwarden in June-July 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Limits of learning : an introduction / Concetta Giliberto and Loredana Teresi; title: The limits of Bede's learning in his sources, purpose, and transmission / George Hardin Brown; title: Aelfric on the planets in the Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesin / Filippa Alcamesi; title: The dynamics of the image of love : the ancient god of love in a Christian encyclopaedic setting / Esther Mulders; title: Seduced by pagan poets and philosophers : suspicious learning in the early Middle Ages / Mariken Teeuwen; title: Alphabets in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / Kees Dekker; title: Some curious interpretations of letter names in seven Greek alphabets : stretching the bounds of a tradition / Alan Griffiths; title: Aelfric and the authorship of the Old English De diebus malis / László Sándor Chardonnens; title: Aelfric's downsized version of Alcuin's Quaestiones in Genesim : enough is enough / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr.; title: Rare words in the Old English Heptateuch / Richard Marsden; title: The poem "Nauta rudis ..." in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts : more than a colophon / Patrizia Lendinara; title: Where do they belong? : typology and meaning of the signs of the last judgement in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / Concetta Giliberto; title: Books and learning in the prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England database / Francesca Tinti.