TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caiazzo,Irene
AU  - Macris,Constantinos
AU  - Robert,Aurélien
TI  - Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
T2  - Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Series
SN  - 9789004499461
AV  - B243 .B755 2022 
U1  - 182.2 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Pythagoras
KW  - Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations and Tables -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction Pythagoras, from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. A Multicultural Approach -- Part 1 Pythagorean Number Theory and the Quadrivium -- Chapter 1 Pythagoras and the Quadrivium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages -- Chapter 2 Music and the Pythagorean Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages -- Chapter 3 Nicomachean Number Theory in Arabic and Persian Scholarly Literature -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 5 Medieval Jewish Pythagoreanism. Remarks on Maimonides and on Sefer Melakhim -- Part 2 Pythagorean Way(s) of Life, East and West -- Chapter 6 Popular Pythagoreanism in the Arabic Tradition. Between Biography and Gnomology -- Chapter 7 Pythagoras' Ethics and the Pythagorean Way of Life in the Middle Ages -- Part 3 Theology, Metaphysics and the Soul -- Chapter 8 Pythagoras' Philosophy of Unity as a Precursor of Islamic Monotheism. Pseudo-Ammonius and Related Sources -- Chapter 9 The "Brethren of Purity" and the Pythagorean Tradition -- Chapter 10 "Pythagoras' Mistake": The Transmigration of Souls in the Latin Middle Ages and Beyond -- Chapter 11 Pythagoras Latinus. Aquinas' Interpretation of Pythagoreanism in His Aristotelian Commentaries -- Chapter 12 Latin Christian Neopythagorean Theology. A Speculative Summa -- Part 4 New Trends in Early Modern Pythagoreanism -- Chapter 13 Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Renaissance. Philosophical and Religious Itineraries from Pico to Brucker -- Chapter 14 Pythagorean Number Mysticism in the Renaissance. An Overview -- Index of Names
N2  - For the first time, the reader can have a synoptic view of the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, East and West, in a multicultural perspective. All the major themes of Pythagoreanism are addressed, from mathematics, number philosophy and metaphysics to ethics and religious thought
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