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Latin as the Language of Science and Learning

This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and learning from several angles. First, the question what was understood as ‘science’ through time and how it is named in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that point to ‘science’ as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin’s heydays in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role. A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result, several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in English becomes evident.

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Proclus and his Legacy

This volume investigates Proclus' own thought and his wide-ranging influence within late Neoplatonic, Alexandrine and Byzantinian philosophy and theology. It further explores how Procline metaphysics and doctrines of causality influence and transition into Arabic and Islamic thought, up until Richard Hooker in England, Spinoza in Holland and Pico in Italy. John Dillon provides a helpful overview of Proclus' thought, Harold Tarrant discusses Proclus' influence within Alexandrian philosophy and Tzvi Langermann presents ground breaking work on the Jewish reception of Proclus, focusing on the work of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591-1655), while Stephen Gersh presents a comprehensive synopsis of Proclus' reception throughout Christendom. The volume also presents works from notable scholars like Helen Lang, Sarah Wear and Crystal Addey and has a considerable strength in its presentation of Pseudo-Dionysius, Proclus' transmission and development in Arabic philosophy and the problem of the eternity of the world. It will be important for anyone interested in the development and transition of ideas from the late ancient world onwards.

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De Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period

This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries complete with a rich context. The essays explore the educational and social backgrounds of the writers. They also detail how their careers developed after the publication of their commentaries, the institutions and patrons they were affiliated with, what their agenda was, and whether and how they actually accomplished it. The editor of this collection considers these scientific commentaries as genuine scientific works. The contributors investigate them here not only in reference to the work on which it comments but also, and especially, as independent scientific contributions that are socially, institutionally, and intellectually contextualized around their authors.

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Pieper, C. & Velden, B. (2020). Reading Cicero’s Final Years: Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century – with two Epilogues. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi.org/10.1515/9783110716313 @philosophy @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (36)

Reading Cicero’s Final Years

This volume contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the reception of Cicero. It focuses on one particular moment in Cicero’s life, the period from the death of Caesar up to Cicero’s own death. These final years have shaped Cicero’s reception in an special way, as they have condensed and enlarged themes that his life stands for: on the positive side his fight for freedom and the republic against mighty opponents (for which he would finally be killed); on the other hand his inconsistency in terms of political alliances and tendency to overestimate his own influence. For that reason, many later readers viewed the final months of Cicero's life as his swan song, and as representing the essence of his life as a whole. The fixed scope of this volume facilitates an analysis of the underlying debates about the historical character Cicero and his textual legacy (speeches, letters and philosophical works) through the ages, stretching from antiquity itself to the present day. Major themes negotiated in this volume are the influence of Cicero’s regular attempts to anticipate his later reception; the question of whether or not Cicero showed consistency in his behaviour; his debatable heroism with regard to republican freedom; and the interaction between philosophy, rhetoric and politics.

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King Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries

The Arthurian myth is one of the most fundamental and abiding ones of Western culture. The legend of King Arthur and his knights was no less popular in the medieval Low Countries than it was anywhere else in medieval Europe. It gave rise to a varied corpus of Middle Dutch Arthurian verse romances, most of which are contained in a single manuscript, the so-called Lancelot Compilation of MS The Hague, KB, 129 A10. This manuscript of the early fourteenth century contains a cycle of verse narratives that rivals in its scope and thematic concerns the better known Old French Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian tales and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur. This volume contains new critical work on these and other Middle Dutch Arthurian romances, twelve studies by eleven established scholars in the field of Arthurian literature. In addition to this new scholarship, the volume is provided with an extensive introduction to the Arthurian literature of the medieval Low Countries, as well as summaries of all the extant Middle Dutch Arthurian texts. As such it should prove of interest to Arthurian specialists and enthusiasts alike, many of whom will discover a new body of Arthurian tales, at once both familiar and new, in a heretofore relatively neglected area of Arthurian studies.

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Rapp, C., Kinloch, M., Krausmüller, D., Mitsiou, E., Nesseris, I., Papavarnavas, C., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Rossetto, G., Shukurov, R., & Simeonov, G. (2023). Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook. In V&R unipress eBooks. doi.org/10.14220/9783737013413 @medievodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (45)

Bronze Age Lives

The Bronze Age of Europe is a crucial formative period that underlay the civilisations of Greece and Rome, fundamental to our own modern civilisation. A systematic description of it appeared in 2013, but this work offers a series of personal studies of aspects of the period by one of its best known practitioners. The book is based on the idea that different aspects of the Bronze Age can be studied as a series of “lives”: the life of people and peoples, of objects, of places, and of societies. Each of these is taken in turn and a range of aspects presented that offer interesting insights into the period. These are based on recent research (for instance on the genetic history of the Old World) as well as on fundamental earlier studies. In addition, there is a consideration of the history of Bronze Age studies, the “life of the Bronze Age”. The book provides a novel approach to the Bronze Age based on the personal interests of a well-known Bronze Age scholar. It offers insights into a period that students of other aspects of the ancient world, as well as Bronze Age specialists and general readers, will find interesting and stimulating.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Donne, J. (1624). Devotions Vpon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: Digested Into I. Meditations Upon Our Humane Condition. 2. Expostuvlations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, Upon the Seuerall Occasions, to Him. United Kingdom: A.M.. google.co.uk/books/edition/Dev @bookstodon (50)

"Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online?"

Jongepier, F., & Klenk, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Philosophy of Online Manipulation (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003205425 @philosophy @bookstodon (52)

Latin as the Language of Science and Learning

This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and learning from several angles. First, the question what was understood as ‘science’ through time and how it is named in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that point to ‘science’ as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin’s heydays in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role. A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result, several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in English becomes evident.

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"In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas."

Barth, J. (2022). The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. doi.org/10.1515/9781501755781 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (55)

The Currency of Empire

In The Currency of Empire , Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the Patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American Independence.

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"Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition)."

(Eds.). (22 Feb. 2021). Traces of Ink. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004444805 @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (57)

"A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium."

Beretta, M. (Ed.). (2022). A Cultural History Of Chemistry: In Antiquity. London,: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved September 10, 2023, from dx.doi.org/10.5040/97814742037
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"He demonstrates how imperial Christianity inflected the production of truth far beyond the domain of theology — and how intellectual tools forged in the fires of doctrinal controversy shed their theological baggage and came to undergird the great intellectual productions of the Theodosian Age, and their material expressions."

Letteney, M. (2023). The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781009363341 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (65)

"Matthew Leporati argues that the epic revival not only reflects but also interrogates this evangelical turn. The first to examine the impact of the missionary work on epic literature, this book offers sustained analysis of both under-read and canonical works, bringing fresh historical and literary contexts to bear on our understanding of this unique revival of epic poetry."

Leporati, M. (2023). Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781009285155 @bookstodon (66)

"After introducing plural logic and its main applications, the book provides a systematic analysis of the relation between this logic and other theoretical frameworks such as set theory, mereology, higher-order logic, and modal logic."

Florio, Salvatore, and Øystein Linnebo, The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic (Oxford, 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Sept. 2021), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791, accessed 4 Dec. 2023. @philosophy @bookstodon (67)

"This book provides the first full history of phrenitis. In doing so, it surveys ancient ideas about the interactions between body and soul, both in health and in disease. It also addresses ancient ideas about bodily health, mental soundness and moral 'goodness', and their heritage in contemporary psychiatric ideas."

Thumiger, C. (2023). Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: doi.org/10.1017/9781009241311 @bookstodon (68)

"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."

Mullen, Alex (ed.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Dec. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198887, accessed 16 Dec. 2023.
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"This interdisciplinary study analyses the connections between literary Modernism and right-wing ideology. Moreover, it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology."

Frisch, K. (2019) The F-Word. Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and the far right. doi.org/10.30819/4972. @bookstodon (70)

"Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia."

Waerzeggers, Caroline, and Melanie M. Groß, eds. Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE): An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009291071 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (71)

"This book does not attempt to answer this seemingly unsolvable puzzle either but aims to shed light on a simple fact usually overlooked by linguists and laypeople alike: the conceptual pair is not a timeless given but has a history, and a much shorter one than one might assume."

Van Rooy, Raf, Language or Dialect? The History of a Conceptual Pair (Oxford, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Nov. 2020), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845, accessed 24 Dec. 2023. @linguistics @medievodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (72)

"He explores the practical implementation of the texts in their ancient setting through analyses of codicological aspects, paratextual elements, and scribal features. Linjamaa's research supports the hypothesis that the Nag Hammadi texts had their origins in Pachomian monasticism. He shows how Pachomian monks used the texts for textual edification, spiritual development and pedagogical practices."

Linjamaa P. The Nag Hammadi Codices and Their Ancient Readers: Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice. Cambridge University Press; 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009441483 @religion @bookstodon (73)

"Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 focusses on the enduring position of ancient Persia in Byzantine cultural memory, encompassing both in the ‘religious’ and the ‘secular’ significance. By analysing a wide range of historical sources – from church literature to belles- lettres – this book examines the intricate relationship between ancient Persia and Byzantine cultural memory, as well as the integration and function of Persian motifs in the Byzantine mentality."

Shukurov, R. (2023). Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003205197 @bookstodon (74)

"Less appreciated, however, are the deep historical roots of this convergence process, and in particular of the spread of modern industry to the global periphery. This book fills this gap by providing a systematic, comparative, historical account of the spread of modern manufacturing beyond its traditional heartland, to Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America, or what we call the poor periphery."

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj, and Jeffrey Gale Williamson (eds), The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 (Oxford, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Mar. 2017), doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/978, accessed 12 Jan. 2024. @econhist @historyofeconomics @bookstodon (75)

"Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists."

Hornkohl, A.D. and Khan, G. (2021) 'New perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew,' in Semitic languages and cultures. doi.org/10.11647/obp.0250. @linguistics @bookstodon (76)

"Taken together, the essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an "imperial commons," a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize the other."

Hofmeyr, Isabel, and Antoinette Burton. Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons. 1 ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2015., doi.org/10.1353/book.70934. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (77)

"It is about the Land according to the redefined Judaism that emerged in the centuries following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. This Judaism replaced the temple cult with Torah study - a study that pertained in part to that very temple cult, that became a portable homeland, and that reconfigured the Land."

Cordoni, C. (01 Mar. 2024). Reconfiguring the Land of Israel, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004696761 [Accessed 02 April 2024]. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (78)

"Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the Judeans’ socio-economic status and integration into Babylonian society."

Alstola, T. (19 Dec. 2019). Judeans in Babylonia, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004365421 [Accessed 29 April 2024]

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"How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? "

Hostetler, L. (eds) (31 Jan. 2024). Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004684782 [Accessed 30 April 2024]

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Ooh!
I want to read that book!

The Late Antique is such an interesting time

Is it really open access?! Wow. Now I'll have to put my brain where my mouth is

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Please stop.

You can see what religion currently does in certain places in the world

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WHY I DON'T READ PHYSICAL BOOKS... BUT MORE AUDIO/VOICE COPY OR TTS READING... 

@bibliolater @philosophy @bookstodon Reasons why I don't read - quite interesting and more than I thought:

0/ Need to buy AND store it physically which I don't having move a bit or reducing as a lifestyle from so many clothes and purchase to almost just food - I've cut down all possession and to large extent "Internet" replaces or serves everything!

(Internet as library, tea shop to chat, images for clothes and ideas "in future" instead of actually buying them I keep the image!, newspapers clips, interaction / observation etc).

Strange to write but nice overall I hope to replace and stick to gardening / Earth / emotional intelligence etc...

A static Library is a shame for me also and kills the books somewhat over time unless you have guest that ask as active ornamental discussion pieces (education of sorts so can work).

When moving once I left a book at each bus stop with a note inside asking nicely to protect or pass it on and maybe it needs to live, maybe why i liked the book as many you can't be sure of...

1/ Often I have to pull myself out all media and the magnetism of it unless directly which I'm into (which was everything and now narrow and zooming out again)

All media is magnetic to the level of "Oh man I have to dedicate my life to this" as a factor making me 'unsure' to read it if it's that good... mostly because I have to make notes I don't unless relative... which most is so shrug I guess I have to choose well.

Summary of point - I'm limiting myself with all medium or it's easier to preview with audio / disposable after finishing audio and I can multi-task or make notes at the same time...

2/ It's also the medium of reading is too focused for body physically - so on computer or as physical book - almost too narrow for body (nice for downtime or fun BUT FOR ME intensive if away from computer perhaps - making proper notes on paper (and then computer after). So computer is maybe used as notes for eventually anyway...

3/ NO SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS IN BOOKS ! <---- YEAH that is it reading all these things would be better IF it gave solutions quickly and wasn't such a gamble.... and I pretty sure most don't or a it's a genre trying to make you 'feel' something via characters (kinda ok but the other version of points / Cliff Notes also is good so you are not investing in the drama / dramatics to see the points).

4/ Often the points are spelled out in different genres so it's even further a gamble... if not practical in your life or you're in love with how someone writes....

For me must be practical or relative in some sense... I can read long if it's in their light more clearly...
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MY SOLUTION = AUDIO

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1/ AUDIO BOOK

OR

2. Text to Speech! (Paste text into offline app window and it reads!). Currently tested / testing

portableapps.com/apps/
⬇️ almost first on the list are these below ⬇️

1 ➡️ Balabolka Portable (Freeware) - read text aloud or save to audio file

2 ➡️ DSpeech Portable (Freeware) - read text aloud or save to audio file

WHY I DON'T READ PHYSICAL BOOKS... BUT MORE AUDIO/VOICE COPY OR TTS READING... 

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So well written (and only just started so I'll let you know if it ever fails to hit as well as it has now as I HAVE FELT REALLY SIMILAR FOR YEARS about the disintegration and more tech - and nearly nobody has listened or just switch to "the human work" using existing tech which is really "advanced enough" and overshoot is not needed, more "human improvement" and mentality need adjusting / balancing from people doing things like group chats and minor therapy for how distant life became and more educated / enjoying we could be of each other (and needed as a kind of pollination of ourselves rather than - even with just education as media all the time - without the human saying it or sharing it - it's kind of dry / doesn't give to humanity at the end as it's about more practice and participation by all in two-way and group stuff not just computer ! )

WHY I DON'T READ PHYSICAL BOOKS... BUT MORE AUDIO/VOICE COPY OR TTS READING... 

@freeschool @bibliolater @philosophy @bookstodon I've gotten to the point where 10pt type is to small for me to read even with my readers. I tossed the dead tree version of the book and got the Kindle version where I can adjust the type size so I can read it. I also kept swiping the lower right hand corner of the paper page, but it still wouldn't flip to the next page. Not a problem on the Kindle.

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