Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods
"Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the 'superspreader' of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp contribute to architectural...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Amsterdam :
Brill
2023.
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Edición: | 1st ed |
Colección: | Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009761921306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- General introduction : agents of change / Silvia Castelli
- Mosquitoes, molecules, and megafauna : who and what has agency in human history / J.R. McNeill
- Builders, architects, and the power of context: agents of architectural change in fourth-century-BCE Epidaurus and Delphi / Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant
- Agents of change around the Valley of the Muses / Robin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf
- Callimachus vs. Conon : competing agents of change for the Lock of Berenice / Brett Evans
- Anonymizing agents of change in philosophical pseudepigraphy : the case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute / Albert Joosse
- Cicero and political agency in late-republican Rome / Merlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils
- Primus Juvencus and other agents of change in the rise of Christian Latin poetry / Roald Dijkstra
- John Cassian as an agent of change / Nienke Vos
- Greek-Latin translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447-1455) : the agents that changed the Humanist translation movement / Annet den Haan
- Erasmus, an unsuspected superspreader of new ancient Greek? / Raf Van Rooy.