Networking through Biography
Constructing Intellectual Junctions in Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic World
edited by Arjan Post, Geert Roskam, Stefan Schorn, Joseph Verheyden and Pietro Zaccaria
This volume explores the networking function of biographical literature written in Greco-Roman antiquity, the Italian Renaissance and the Arabic Middle Period
Networking through Biography. Constructing Intellectual Junctions in Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic World collects thirteen contributions exploring various ways in which biography was used to create and modify intellectual networks in Greco-Roman antiquity, the Italian Renaissance and the Arabic Middle Period. The volume examines not only biographies in the proper sense of the term, but also other forms of biographical discourse, such as encyclopedias, historical works and autobiographies. The essays deal with biographies of a wide range of persons, including poets, politicians, semi-mythical lawgivers, philosophers, rhetoricians, Christian theologians, and Islamic scholars. By detecting parallel developments and different or similar networking strategies, the diachronic approach taken in the present volume reveals specific characteristics of networking through biography in different intellectual and literary traditions, showing that creating intellectual networks was an important, sometimes even the central, function of biographical writing.
- Edited by Geert Roskam
- Edited by Stefan Schorn
- Edited by Joseph Verheyden
- Edited by Pietro Zaccaria
- Edited by Arjan Post
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Shaping Authority
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Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
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Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797)
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Towards the Authority of Vesalius
Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond
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The Early Modern Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429): Theological Authority between Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
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On Good Authority
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