{"title":"Why William of Moerbeke Is Not the Author of ‘His’ 'Geomantia' (And Why That Does Not Make the Text Less Interesting)","authors":"P. Beullens","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11498","url":null,"abstract":"The intention of this note is to assess the current tendency to view the Geomantia as a genuine work by William of Moerbeke. While the attribution in the colophons is accepted at face value, other lines of enquiry have remained unexplored. This note advocates the inclusion of linguistic elements and the study of the transmission's cultural background into the debate.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"460 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123649272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thomistic Logic in Renaissance Italy: Girolamo Savonarola, Paolo Barbò, Crisostomo Javelli","authors":"Luca Gili","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11174","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is devoted to the formation of a ‘Thomist logic’ in Renaissance Italy. After having expounded the principles that should inspire any logic ad mentem Divi Thomae, the article focuses on three textbooks of ‘Thomist logic’: Girolamo Savonarola’s Compendium Logicae, Paolo Barbò’s Expositio in Artem veterem, and Crisostomo Javelli’s Compendium Logicae. I show that these textbooks display common features, such as the presentation of logic according to the order of the books traditionally included in the Organon.Savonarola maintained that propositions can only be in the present tense and cannot generate insolubilia. Barbò’s contributions to philosophy of logic are conspicuous and include an original discussion of the subiectum of logic and of the doctrine expounded in the Categories. Under the possible influence of Renaissance humanism, Javelli’s textbook includes a history of logic and historical and philological analyses.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121965120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching for the Routes of Philosophy: Marsilio Ficino on Heraclitus","authors":"G. Steiris","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11331","url":null,"abstract":"Marsilio Ficino is well known for his efforts to expand the philosophical canon of his time. He exhibited great interest in Platonism and Neoplatonism, but also endeavoured to recover understudied philosophical traditions of the ancient world. In his Theologia platonica de immortalitate animorum, he commented on the Presocratics. Ficino thought of the Presocratics as authorities and possessors of undisputed wisdom. This article seeks to explore the way in which Ficino treated the philosophy of Heraclitus in the Theologia platonica in order to formulate his own philosophical ideas.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126640872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Rezeption der Waffensalbe und des sympathetischen Pulvers im Osmanischen Reich des 17. Jahrhunderts // The Reception of Weapon Salve and Powder of Sympathy in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire","authors":"N. Bachour","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11493","url":null,"abstract":"Im siebzehnten Jahrhundert erlebte das naturmagische Denken in der Medizin eine Blütezeit. In der medizinischen Praxis verbreiteten sich Rezepte, die durch Sympathie und Antipathie zwischen Makro- und Mikrokosmos begründet wurden, wie etwa die Waffensalbe und das Sympathetische Pulver. In der zweiten Hälfte des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts fand die Iatrochemie durch Übersetzungen aus dem Lateinischen ins Arabische den Weg in das Osmanische Reich, wie es bei der Basilica Chymicavon Oswaldus Crollius (gest.1609) der Fall war. Das Werk enthält eine Vorschrift für die Waffensalbe « Unguentum sympatheticum seu stellatum Paracelsi », die ins Arabische übersetzt wurde. Diese Studie analysiert Textstellen im Zusammenhang mit der Transmission der Waffensalbe und des Sympathetischen Pulvers im arabischen und osmanischen Schrifttum des siebzehnten und achtzehnten Jahrhunderts und rekonstruiert die Übertragungsmodalitäten magischer Konzepte, welche der Verwendung der Waffensalbe zugrunde lagen. Die Studie zeigt, dass die lateinischen Texte einem Transformationsprozess auf textueller Ebene, aber auch hinsichtlich der astrologisch-magischen Konzepte unterlagen. Außerdem zeigt der Beitrag, dass ein europäischer Arzt das Sympathetische Pulver im Istanbul des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts therapeutisch einsetzte.The seventeenth century saw the spread of natural magic in medicine. Several remedies based on concepts of sympathy and analogy between microcosm and macrocosm were introduced into therapy, such as weapon salve and powder of sympathy. In the second half of the seventeenth century, European iatrochemical knowledge was introduced into the Ottoman Empire through translations from Latin into Arabic, such as the translation of the Basilica Chymica by Oswaldus Crollius (d. 1609). The book contains a recipe for weapon salve with the title « Unguentum sympatheticum seu stellatum Paracelsi » that was translated into Arabic. This study addresses the transition of weapon salve and powder of sympathy to the Ottoman Empire by examining Arabic and Ottoman texts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also addresses the modalities of translation and transfer of magical concepts underlying the usage of sympathetic remedies. This paper reveals that the Latin texts underwent a transformation process on a textual as well as on a conceptual level, especially regarding astrological and magical concepts. The study shows that a European physician was probably using powder of sympathy in Istanbul in the late seventeenth century. ","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130539208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carla Casagrande, Gianfranco Fioravanti (eds.), La filosofia in Italia al tempo di Dante, Casa editrice Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, (Le vie della civiltà), XXI + 291 PP. ISBN 97888256166","authors":"P. Rossi","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11590","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Carla Casagrande, Gianfranco Fioravanti (eds.), La filosofia in Italia al tempo di Dante, Casa editrice Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, (Le vie della civiltà), XXI + 291 PP. ISBN 978-88-25616-6","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121619703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Byzantium and the End of the Middle Ages","authors":"John Monfasani","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11504","url":null,"abstract":"The fall of Constantinople in 1453 marked the end of Byzantium, but that is not when the Middle Ages ended. So this paper explores the rise of Byzantine studies as specifically part of the study of the Midlle Ages.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127149338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memoriam Marc Geoffroy (1965-2018)","authors":"J. Janssens","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11468","url":null,"abstract":"This Memoriam shows how the scholarly work of Marc Geoffroy largely corresponds with the ideal of the present journal, i.e. the study of various areas of knowlege transfer from the Late Antiquity ot the Early Modern period, covering the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin, while paying special attention to philological, philosophical, scientific, cultural and religious fields of research.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130123442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Paris to Gotha: The Circulation of Two Parisian Jesuit Courses between the 16th and the 17th century","authors":"Anna Tropia","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V4I0.11470","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces back the history of a collection of manuscript academic course-notes taken by a German student at the end of the sixteenth century and today preserved at the Research Library of Gotha (Thuringien, Germany). It focuses, in particular, on two of them, which transmit texts dictated in Paris: they testify to the large circulation of academic doctrines through the practice of the copy of the course-notes by students.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114322381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"APOCALIPSIS DEL PSEUDO ATANASIO [ApPsAr(ar) II] EDICIÓN, TRADUCCIÓN ANOTADA Y ESTUDIO","authors":"Lourdes Bonhome Pullido","doi":"10.21071/mijtk.v4i0.6491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v4i0.6491","url":null,"abstract":"Reseña del libro \"Apocalipsis del Pseudo Atanasio [ApPsAr(ar) II] Edición, traducción anotada y estudio\" de JUAN PEDRO MONFERRER-SALA","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125928237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Siger of Brabant, author of the anonymous Questio de creatione ex nihilo","authors":"L. Devriese","doi":"10.21071/MIJTK.V0I2.6721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21071/MIJTK.V0I2.6721","url":null,"abstract":"An anonymous question on creation, in which a creatio ex nihilo is denied, has been preserved in only one manuscript of Paris. In the study Sigeri di Brabante. Questio de creatione ex nihilo (ms. Paris BnF lat. 16297, f. 116rb-vb): Edizione, paternità e cronologia, the editor Andrea Aiello edits this question and establishes the chronology and the authorship. This treatise is attributed to Siger of Brabant and is probably written between 1270 and 1277. This paper presents a review of this recently published study. It wants to demonstrate some methodological problems, but above all it is accentuated that this study will contribute greatly to scholarship on Siger of Brabant.","PeriodicalId":212680,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125369465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}