Description:
A collection of essays using historical and philological approaches to study the transit of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period. Examines the nature of texts themselves and how they travel, and reveals the details behind the transit of texts across cultures, languages, and epochs.
Brief description: Robert G. Morrison is Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College.
Review Quotes:
"How did knowledge travel from one culture to another in the Middle Ages? Scholars increasingly appreciate that in parallel to the main vectors--texts, notably translations, transmitted in manuscripts--there were other, more elusive modes of transmission. This volume aims to draw attention to the phenomenon and identify some of these modes. The eleven studies by scholars from various specialties and countries shed new light on an important but underestimated cultural phenomenon."
--Gad Freudenthal, author of Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions