Konrad von Megenbergs Buch von den natürlichen Dingen: ein Dokument deutschsprachiger Albertus Magnus-Rezeption im 14. Jahrhundert

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BRILL, 2004 M01 1 - 384 pages
This study offers a new interpretation of the "Book of Natural Things," a major work by Konrad of Megenberg (1309-1374) written in the vernacular around 1350 in Regensburg. For the first time, the work is put into the context of the 14th-century Faculty of Arts. In addition, this interpretation draws on Megenberg's 8-year teaching career as professor of natural philosophy in Paris and his thematically similar writings in Latin. The volume describes Konrad of Megenberg's intellectual profile and analyzes his process of creating a vernacular scientific discourse based on Latin sources. Albert the Great's paraphrases of Aristotle, as well as the neoplatonic writings of ps.-Albertus Magnus, emerge as significant in positioning of the "Book of Natural Things" within its philosophical and cultural context.
 

Contents

Student und akademischer Lehrer
25
Albertus Magnus im Buch von den natürlichen
125
Allegorese und moralisatio
213
Konrad als Philologe
235
zwischen äußeren und inneren Sinnen
266
Zwischenwürkende krefte
339
Schlußwort
355
Handschriften
375
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Dagmar Gottschall received her Ph.D. in Old German Literature from the Catholic University of Eichstätt and is currently Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Lecce, Italy. Her research focuses on scientific prose at the crossroads between Latin and the vernacular.

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