Aristotle's Animals in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

• Autore principale: Beullens, Pieter (ed.) (auth)
• Altri autori: Guldentops, Guy(ed.) (auth), Steel, Carlos(ed.) (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Leuven University Press 1999
• Serie: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia - Series 1/Studia
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Aristotle's zoological writings with their wealth of detailed investigations on diverse species of animals have fascinated medieval and Renaissance culture. This volume explores how these texts have been read in various traditions (Arabic, Hebrew, Latin), and how they have been incorporated in...