Fragmented nature : medieval latinate reasoning on the natural world and its order /: medieval latinate reasoning on the natural world and its order. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mattia Cipriani, Nicola Polloni.
• Editors: Cipriani, Mattia; Polloni, Nicola
• Contents: Chapter 1 Zoological Inconsistency and Confusion in the Physiologus latinus Emmanuelle Kuhry Chapter 2 Gerald of Wales and Saint Brigid’s Falcon: The Chaste Beast in Medieval and Early Modern Irish Natural History Bernd Roling Chapter 3 Medieval Universes in Disorder: Primeval Chaos and Its Authoritative Coordinates Nicola Polloni Chapter 4 Animals under an Encyclopedic Lens: Zoological Misinterpretation in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Liber de Natura Rerum Mattia Cipriani Chapter 5 Learning from Bees, Wasps, and Ants: Communal Norms, Social Practices, and Contingencies of Nature in Medieval Insect Allegories Julia Burkhardt Chapter 6 Defining and Picturing Elements and Humours in Medieval Medicine: Text and Images in Bartholomew the Englishman’s De Proprietatibus Rerum Grégory Clesse Chapter 7 Why Do Animals Have Parts? Organs and Organisation in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’s De animalibus Dominic Dold Chapter 8 La reproduction imparfaite: les "gusanes " et l’état larvaire des insectes chez Albert le Grand Isabelle Draelants Chapter 9 Elixir as Means of Contrasting with Nature in Albert the Great’s Alchemy Athanasios Rinotas Chapter 10 From Prime Matter to Chaos in Ramon Llull Carla Compagno
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 508.4; Natural history -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Philosophy of nature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Science, Medieval; Europe -- Intellectual life
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000599978; 9781000599954; 9781003094791
• Related ISBNs: 9780367557034
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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