Chapter Lost and found in translation Der alttschechische Barlaam zwischen kontemplativem Traktat, Predigt und Abenteuerroman

• Main Author: Rychterová, Pavlína (auth)
• Other Authors: Sichálek, Jakub (auth), Meyer, Matthias (Editor), Cordoni, Constanza (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Barlaam and Josaphat; Hagiography; Theologians
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a 'scientific ethos'. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and why different forms of scientific ethos have developed since the mid-1...