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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hasse, Dag Nikolaus

Titel

BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY: A Canon of Learned Men

Ist Teil von

• Success and Suppression, 2016, p.28-68

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• World chronicles of the later Middle Ages are rich sources not only on political and ecclesiastical events but also on famous authors. Many chronicles describe the lives and works of the well-knownmagistri, in particular of the twelfth century: Hugh of St. Victor, Bernard of Clairvaux, Peter Lombard, and others. This biographical tradition continues in the Renaissance. But a good number of Renaissance world chronicles differ from their medieval predecessors in that they also treat Arabic authors. This is remarkable in several respects. It says something about the high respect Arabic authors enjoyed in the Renaissance, about the role they