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Author:   Irene Caiazzo ,  Constantinos Macris ,  Aurélien Robert
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   24
Weight:   0.976kg
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9789004373624

ISBN 10:   9004373624
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   25 November 2021
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Pythagoras, from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity  A Multicultural Approach  Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris and Aurélien Robert part 1: Pythagorean Number Theory and the Quadrivium 1 Pythagoras and the Quadrivium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages  Cecilia Panti 2 Music and the Pythagorean Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages  Andrew Hicks 3 Nicomachean Number Theory in Arabic and Persian Scholarly Literature  Sonja Brentjes 4 The Tribulations of the Introduction to Arithmetic from Greek to Hebrew Via Syriac and Arabic  Nicomachus of Gerasa, Ḥabib Ibn Bahrīz, al-Kindī, and Qalonymos ben Qalonymos  Gad Freudenthal 5 Medieval Jewish Pythagoreanism  Remarks on Maimonides and on Sefer Melakhim  Tzvi Langermann part 2: Pythagorean Way(s) of Life, East and West 6 Popular Pythagoreanism in the Arabic Tradition  Between Biography and Gnomology  Anna Izdebska 7 Pythagoras’ Ethics and the Pythagorean Way of Life in the Middle Ages  Aurélien Robert Part 3: Theology, Metaphysics and the Soul 8 Pythagoras’ Philosophy of Unity as a Precursor of Islamic Monotheism  Pseudo-Ammonius and Related Sources  Daniel De Smet 9 The “Brethren of Purity” and the Pythagorean Tradition  Carmela Baffioni 10 “Pythagoras’ Mistake”  The Transmigration of Souls in the Latin Middle Ages and Beyond  Irene Caiazzo 11 Pythagoras Latinus  Aquinas’ Interpretation of Pythagoreanism in His Aristotelian Commentaries  Marta Borgo and Iacopo Costa 12 Latin Christian Neopythagorean Theology  A Speculative Summa  David Albertson Part 4: New Trends in Early Modern Pythagoreanism 13 Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Renaissance  Philosophical and Religious Itineraries from Pico to Brucker  Denis J.-J. Robichaud 14 Pythagorean Number Mysticism in the Renaissance  An Overview  Jean-Pierre Brach Index

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This is a very erudite, coherent, and carefully edited volume. I noticed no typographical mistakes. Moreover, what I found particularly successful was the organization of the content in thematic divisions corresponding to the focal aspects of Pythagorean philosophy. These divisions enabled the contributions focusing on different traditions (Christian Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic) to supplement each other, and thus to demonstrate as fully as possible the historical and philosophical interactions between East and West, which were also vital for the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism during the Middle Ages. It is only unfortunate that, given the volume's title, the Byzantine component has been left out (a decision the editors explain in the introduction, p. 3). That said, the companion under review, with its broad scope and wealth of detail, definitely constitutes a welcome contribution to the field and an indispensable reference source for all students of the transmission of ancient Pythagoreanism (and to some extent also of Platonism), as well as of Presocratic philosophy. Theofanis Tsiampokalos in BMCR 2022.09.14

""This is a very erudite, coherent, and carefully edited volume. I noticed no typographical mistakes. Moreover, what I found particularly successful was the organization of the content in thematic divisions corresponding to the focal aspects of Pythagorean philosophy. These divisions enabled the contributions focusing on different traditions (Christian Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic) to supplement each other, and thus to demonstrate as fully as possible the historical and philosophical interactions between East and West, which were also vital for the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism during the Middle Ages. It is only unfortunate that, given the volume’s title, the Byzantine component has been left out (a decision the editors explain in the introduction, p. 3). That said, the companion under review, with its broad scope and wealth of detail, definitely constitutes a welcome contribution to the field and an indispensable reference source for all students of the transmission of ancient Pythagoreanism (and to some extent also of Platonism), as well as of Presocratic philosophy."" Theofanis Tsiampokalos in BMCR 2022.09.14

"""This is a very erudite, coherent, and carefully edited volume. I noticed no typographical mistakes. Moreover, what I found particularly successful was the organization of the content in thematic divisions corresponding to the focal aspects of Pythagorean philosophy. These divisions enabled the contributions focusing on different traditions (Christian Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic) to supplement each other, and thus to demonstrate as fully as possible the historical and philosophical interactions between East and West, which were also vital for the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism during the Middle Ages. It is only unfortunate that, given the volume’s title, the Byzantine component has been left out (a decision the editors explain in the introduction, p. 3). That said, the companion under review, with its broad scope and wealth of detail, definitely constitutes a welcome contribution to the field and an indispensable reference source for all students of the transmission of ancient Pythagoreanism (and to some extent also of Platonism), as well as of Presocratic philosophy."" Theofanis Tsiampokalos in BMCR 2022.09.14"

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Irene Caiazzo, Ph.D. (1999), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She specializes in the history of medieval philosophy and science, and is editor-in-chief of the annual journal Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age. Her major publications include Lectures médiévales de Macrobe: Les Glosae Colonienses super Macrobium (Paris, 2002) and Thierry of Chartres: The Commentary on the De arithmetica of Boethius (Toronto, 2015). Constantinos Macris, Ph.D. (2004), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), is Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) specialising in ancient Greek philosophy and religion, with a focus on Pythagoreanism and its Neoplatonic reception. He is the author of a book-length entry on Pythagoras, the Pythagoreans, and their Nachleben (Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, vol. VII, Paris 2018), and editor of Pythagoras redivivus. Studies on the Texts Attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Baden Baden, 2021). Aurélien Robert, Ph.D. (2005), is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). His works focus on the reception of Ancient Greek philosophy in the Middle Ages, and more particularly atomism, philosophical medicine and Aristotelian metaphysics, physics and ethics. He is the author of Epicure aux enfers. Hérésie, athéisme et hédonisme au Moyen Âge (Paris, 2021) and Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Leiden-Boston, 2009). Contributors are: Constantinos Macris, Cecilia Panti, Andrew Hicks, Sonja Brentjes, Gad Freudenthal, Tzvi Langermann, Anna Izdebska, Aurélien Robert, Daniel De Smet, Carmela Baffioni, Irene Caiazzo, Marta Borgo, Iacopo Costa, David Albertson, Denis Robichaud, Jean-Pierre Brach.

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