Research Catalog

Title

Canonical texts and scholarly practices : a global comparative approach / edited by Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grafton, Anthony
• Most, Glenn W.

Description

xi, 388 pages; 26 cm

Subjects

• Criticism, Textual
• Canon (Literature)
• Transmission of texts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

How to do things with texts: an introduction Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most -- 1. Reliable books: Islamic law, canonization, and manuscripts in the Ottoman Empire (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) / Guy Burak (New York University) -- 2. Obscurity / Ineke Sluiter (University of Leiden) -- 3. Allegoresis and etymology / Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/University of Chicago) -- 4. Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage: the deity-of-the-formula system / Paolo Visigalli (University of Munich) -- 5. Maryadam Ullanghya: The boundaries of interpretation in Early Modern India / Christopher Minkowski (University of Oxford) -- 6. Making sense of Suetonius in the Twelfth Century / Robert A. Kaster (Princeton University) -- 7. From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi as a reader-annotator / Lianbin Dai (Harvard University) -- 8. Gods on clay: Ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions / Aaron Tugendhaft (University of Chicago) -- 9. An unknown Medieval Coptic Hebraism? On a momentous junction of Jewish and Coptic biblical studies / Ronny Vollandt (Free University of Berlin) -- 10. Picturing as practice: placing a square above a square in the Central Middle Ages / Megan McNamee (University of Michigan) -- 11. Inimitable sources: canonical texts and rhetorical theory in the Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew Traditions / Filippomaria Pontani (University of Venice) -- 12. Excerpts versus fragments: deconstructions and reconstitutions of the Excerpta Constantiniana / András Németh (Vatican Apostolic Library) -- 13. Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook / Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (University of Oxford) -- 14. World bibliographies: libraries and the reorganization of knowledge in Late Renaissance Europe / Paola Molino (University of Vienna).

Call Number

JFF 16-1768

ISBN

• 9781107105980
• 1107105986

LCCN

2016008141

OCLC

948668838

Title

Canonical texts and scholarly practices : a global comparative approach / edited by Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Grafton, Anthony, editor.

Most, Glenn W., editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-1768