IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 114: Scholars and Their Books in the Byzantine Empire, the Carolingian Kingdoms, and the Timurid Empire
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Sonderforschungsbereich 950 'Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa', Universität Hamburg |
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| Organiser: | Philippe Depreux, Historisches Seminar / Sonderforschungsbereich 950 'Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa', Universität Hamburg |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| Paper 114-a | An Early Medieval School Book and Its Use: Karlsruhe Aug. perg. 112 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 114-b | Islamic Scholarship Embodied in a Manuscript: A Case Study (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 114-c | Teaching Aristotle's Analytics in the Byzantine Age: What Does a Manuscript Tell Us? (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography, Philosophy |
| Abstract | The session's aim is to compare the curricula in different linguistic (Arabic, Greek, and Latin) and cultural (Christian Western Europe and Byzantium, and Islamic Near East) school contexts through the Middle Ages and to compare how medieval scholars handled the knowledge of their times and adapted their teaching material to their own needs. All three papers investigate specific manuscripts in respect to their contents and materiality. Paper -a deals with the definition of what a Carolingian monastic schoolbook is or could be. Paper -b investigates Ḥadīth scholarship in the Timurid Empire and examines the art of writing down oral comments of the words and deeds attributed to the prophet Muḥammad. Paper -c focuses on the reception of Aristotle's teaching on logic in Palaeologan times and on the glossing activity of scholars who sometimes transmitted earlier commentaries without modifying them and sometimes wrote something new. |