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Limits to learning : the transfer of encyclopaedic knowledge in the early Middle Ages
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- Creator
- edited by Concetta Giliberto and Loredana Teresi
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Leuven : Peeters, 2013
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789042927087, 9042927089
- OCLC
- ocn840391419
- Proceedings from the third workshop of the project, Storehouses of Wholesome Learning, held in Leeuwarden in June-July 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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 / László Sándor 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
Subjects
- 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.