Shaping Authority: How Did a Person Become an Authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?

460 Pages·2016·1.86 MB·English

by  Shari Boodts, Johan Leemans, Brigitte Meijns

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Shaping Authority
How Did a Person Become an Authority
in Antiquity, the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance?
edited by
Shari Boodts
Johan Leemans
Brigitte Meijns
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
nahoJ Leemans, B etigir Meijns
Why are Some Greater than Others? Actors and Factors Shaping
the Authority of Persons from Antiquity to the Renaisance 9
naJ Opsomer, A alegn Ulacco
Epistemic Authority in Textual Traditions: A Model and Some
Examples from Ancient Philosophy 12
leihciM Meeusen
Aristotle’s Authority in the Tradition of Natural Problems. The Case
of Plutarch of Chaeronea 74
B mar Demulder
Plato vs. Plato on the Generation of the Cosmos (T .mi 28B)
Authority in the Interpretations of Plutarch and Proclus 78
C araih Meccariello
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Authority.
The interplay of Homer’s and Dio Chrysostom’s Authority in the
Making and Reception of the T najor O noitar 91
leahciM S traut Williams
‘But I May Be Wrong’: The Self-Conscious Construction of Episcopal
Authority in the Sermons of Ambrose of Milan 751
C naitsirh Müller
Revisiting an Authority’s Secret(s) of Success: The Rise and Decline
of the Latin Athanasius 791
divaD Defries
Wonder, Mirror Neurons and Embodied Cognition in the Early
Medieval Experience of Miracles 32
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E drawd .M Schoolman
Engineered Holy Authority and the Tenth-Century ati V of St. Barba-
tianus of Ravenna 152
eleJ Lisson
The Dark Side of Remembrance: How Medieval Chroniclers
Demonized Bishop Adalbero of Laon (977–1033) 182
nhoJ Van Engen
Authorship, Authority, and Authorization: The Cases of Abbot
Bernard of Clairvaux and Abbess Hildegard of Bingen 523
E av Vandemeulebroucke, iruoY Desplenter
How Jan van Leeuwen († 1378) Was Made an Author. Oarep
O ainm and Authority 363
omocaiG Signore, A an Dlaba čová, ekeiraM Abram
Between Norms and Books. Constructing Authority in the Fifteenth
Century 983
aicirtaP .D Meneses
Antonio Manetti’s Brunelleschi: An Attempt at Establishing Artistic
Authority 934
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ot hcus a .noitcurtsnoc T eh sretpahc ni siht kob laed htiw eht
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