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Title:

Limits to learning : the transfer of encyclopaedic knowledge in the early Middle Ages / edited by Concetta Giliberto and Loredana Teresi.

Publisher:

Peeters,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xvii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Learning and scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500--Congresses.
Manuscripts, English (Old)--Congresses.
Transmission of texts--Europe--History--To 1500--Congresses.
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Europe--Congresses.
Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--Europe--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Giliberto, Concetta, editor.
Teresi, Loredana, editor.

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.

Contents:

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

Series:

Mediaevalia Groningana ; new ser., v. 19

ISBN:

9042927089 (pbk.)
9789042927087 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)840391419

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)