Translation Activity in Late Byzantine World

Contexts, Authors, and Texts

Panagiotis Athanasopoulos

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110677089
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire antique

During the late Byzantine period (1261-1453), a significant number of texts were translated from Latin, but also from Arabic and other languages, into Greek. Most of them are still unedited or available in editions that do not meet the modern academic criteria. Nowadays, these translations are attracting scholarly attention, as it is widely recognized that, besides their philological importance per se, they can shed light on the cultural interactions between late Byzantines and their neighbours or predecessors. To address this desideratum, this volume focuses on the cultural context, the translators and the texts produced during the Palaeologan era, extending as well till the end of 15th c. in ex-Byzantine territories. By shedding light on the translation activity of late Byzantine scholars, this volume aims at revealing the cultural aspect of late Byzantine openness to its neighbours.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Contents
• Latin Knowledge, Translations and Politics during the Palaeologan period
• Lateinische Texte und Übersetzer der Paläologenzeit in Konstantinopel. Der Beitrag der Kanzleien des Kaisers und des Patriarchen
• Arabic and Persian Terminology in Mathematical Astronomy from the late Byzantine Empire
• The Planudean Translation of the Disticha Catonis Incorporated in the Textbooks of the Palaeologan and the Mathemataria of the Ottoman Periods
• Les sources du Grand Calcul selon les Indiens de Maxime Planude: réception et transformation chez les lecteurs byzantins
• La traduction grecque du Viatique du voyageur (Zād al-musāfir) d’Ibn al-Ǧazzār et l’une de ses révisions à l’époque paléologue
• Des traductions grecques inédites de traités médicaux arabes
• Demetrios Kydonesʼ Translation of Five Excerpts from Julianus Pomerius’ (Ps.-Prosperus’ and Ps.-Augustine’s) De vita contemplativa (CPL 998), Bk. I: Re-edition and Historical Context
• Choices and Changes of Language in Demetrios Kydones’s Translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, I^a
• Demetrios Kydones’ Greek Rendering of Aristoteles Latinus in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae, qu. 47 (“De Prudentia”) in light of the Sources of Aquinas’ Text
• Polemisti antislamici in cerca d’autore: Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, Demetrio Cidone e Giovanni VI Cantacuzeno
• Prochoros Kydones’s selective translation of Thomas Aquinas’s IIIa Pars of the Summa Theologiae
• Prochoros Kydones’s Translation of Hervaeus Natalis against Gregorios Palamas, Barlaam the Calabrian, and Neilos Kabasilas
• Deux commentaires byzantins au Symbole des apôtres (fin xive-début xve siècle) et leurs modèles latins
• Manuel Kalekas on Sacraments and Resurrection: Further Evidence on the Thomistic Sources of his De fide deque principiis fidei catholicae
• Cardinal Bessarion as a Translator of Plato, Aristotle, and Other Prose Authors in the In Calumniatorem Platonis
• Bessarione traduttore di Pietro Lombardo (Marc. gr. 523): con appunti sulla versione greca della Rhetorica ad Herennium
• Greek Manuals for the Catholic Confession (ms. Athens, National Library, gr. 2473)
• Index of Manuscripts
• Index of Persons