Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-37362-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 238 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 1020 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

A wide range of specialists provide a comprehensive overview of the reception of Pythagorean ideas in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, shedding new light especially on the understudied ‘Medieval Pythagoras’ of the Latin West. They also explore the survival of Pythagoreanism in the Arabic, Jewish, and Persian cultures, thus adopting a multicultural perspective. Their common concern is to detect the sources of this reception, and to follow their circulation in diverse linguistic areas. The reader can thus have a panoramic view of the major themes belonging to the Pythagorean heritage – number philosophy and the sciences of the quadrivium; ethics and way of life; theology, metaphysics and the soul – until the Early Modern times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caiazzo, Irene

Macris, Constantinos

Robert, Aurélien

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Mathematik, Philosophie der Physik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: Pythagoras, from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity

A Multicultural Approach

Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris and Aurélien Robert

part 1: Pythagorean Number Theory and the Quadrivium

1 Pythagoras and the Quadrivium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Cecilia Panti

2 Music and the Pythagorean Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

Andrew Hicks

3 Nicomachean Number Theory in Arabic and Persian Scholarly Literature

Sonja Brentjes

4 The Tribulations of the Introduction to Arithmetic from Greek to Hebrew Via Syriac and Arabic

Nicomachus of Gerasa, Habib Ibn Bahriz, al-Kindi, and Qalonymos ben Qalonymos

Gad Freudenthal

5 Medieval Jewish Pythagoreanism

Remarks on Maimonides and on Sefer Melakhim

Tzvi Langermann

part 2: Pythagorean Way(s) of Life, East and West

6 Popular Pythagoreanism in the Arabic Tradition

Between Biography and Gnomology

Anna Izdebska

7 Pythagoras’ Ethics and the Pythagorean Way of Life in the Middle Ages

Aurélien Robert

Part 3: Theology, Metaphysics and the Soul

8 Pythagoras’ Philosophy of Unity as a Precursor of Islamic Monotheism

Pseudo-Ammonius and Related Sources

Daniel De Smet

9 The “Brethren of Purity” and the Pythagorean Tradition

Carmela Baffioni

10 “Pythagoras’ Mistake”

The Transmigration of Souls in the Latin Middle Ages and Beyond

Irene Caiazzo

11 Pythagoras Latinus

Aquinas’ Interpretation of Pythagoreanism in His Aristotelian Commentaries

Marta Borgo and Iacopo Costa

12 Latin Christian Neopythagorean Theology

A Speculative Summa

David Albertson

Part 4: New Trends in Early Modern Pythagoreanism

13 Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Renaissance

Philosophical and Religious Itineraries from Pico to Brucker

Denis J.-J. Robichaud

14 Pythagorean Number Mysticism in the Renaissance

An Overview

Jean-Pierre Brach

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Irene Caiazzo, Ph.D. (1999), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She specializes in the history of medieval philosophy and science, and is editor-in-chief of the annual journal Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age. Her major publications include Lectures médiévales de Macrobe: Les Glosae Colonienses super Macrobium (Paris, 2002) and Thierry of Chartres: The Commentary on the De arithmetica of Boethius (Toronto, 2015).

Constantinos Macris, Ph.D. (2004), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), is Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) specialising in ancient Greek philosophy and religion, with a focus on Pythagoreanism and its Neoplatonic reception. He is the author of a book-length entry on Pythagoras, the Pythagoreans, and their Nachleben (Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, vol. VII, Paris 2018), and editor of Pythagoras redivivus. Studies on the Texts Attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Baden Baden, 2021).

Aurélien Robert, Ph.D. (2005), is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). His works focus on the reception of Ancient Greek philosophy in the Middle Ages, and more particularly atomism, philosophical medicine and Aristotelian metaphysics, physics and ethics. He is the author of Epicure aux enfers. Hérésie, athéisme et hédonisme au Moyen Âge (Paris, 2021) and Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Leiden-Boston, 2009).

Contributors are: Constantinos Macris, Cecilia Panti, Andrew Hicks, Sonja Brentjes, Gad Freudenthal, Tzvi Langermann, Anna Izdebska, Aurélien Robert, Daniel De Smet, Carmela Baffioni, Irene Caiazzo, Marta Borgo, Iacopo Costa, David Albertson, Denis Robichaud, Jean-Pierre Brach.