Medieval Confluences: Studies in the Intellectual History and Comparative History of Ideas of the Medieval World
This series examines comparative medieval and early modern intellectual history
and explores the comparative history of ideas in various medieval contexts
(Christianity, Islam, Syriac, Jewish, Persian, Byzantine, and Indo-Islamic)
and the interaction of these traditions.
General Editor: Vasileios Syros (University of Chicago / University of Helsinki)
Assistant Editor: Leslie S.B. MacCoull (Society for Coptic Archaeology, North America)
Editorial board:
Muzaffar Alam (University of Chicago)
Linda Darling (University of Arizona)
Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University)
Cary J. Nederman (Texas A & M University)
Mauro Zonta (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
Forthcoming
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A Courtier's Tale: History, Politics, and Culture in Eleventh Century Byzantium
By Dimitris Krallis (Simon Fraser University)
This work benefits from the insights of recent scholarship on Byzantine economic, social, political, and
intellectual life and represents the first systematic analysis of Attaleiates’ writings and the first attempt
to recreate his life in and around the Byzantine court. As a study of eleventh-century Byzantine political and
intellectual history, the book expands on recent work highlighting the revolutionary nature of eleventh century
developments in the field of education and philosophy, highlights the importance of intellectual affinity in
the Byzantine court, and puts people’s ideas at the center of political and cultural processes. More specifically,
it investigates the relationship between politics and history writing, treating the construction of
historical narratives as an eminently political action. This is achieved through a focus on the life and
writings of Michael Attaleiates that looks upon him as a representative of what was in effect the
Byzantine bureaucratic class. In this work his unique experience becomes a template through which we may study
other Byzantine career bureaucrats and courtiers.
Forthcoming 2011
An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina: Second Supplement (1995-2009)
Edited by Jules L. Janssens (Catholic University Leuven)
The original Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina – covering 1970 to 1989 –
was published in 1991 by Leuven University Press,
and the First Supplement – covering 1990 to 1994 – was published in 1999 by the
Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études médiévales.
The Second Supplement will cover fifteen years of research on Ibn Sina (1995 to 2009) and will deal with
publications that appeared not only in the West, but also elsewhere in the world.
This bibliography not only annotates or summarizes each single publication, but it also identifies and highlights each publication's
most innovative ideas and assesses its specific contributions to scholarship in a brief but clear and succinct way.
Unlike a bibliography that merely offers titles of publications, this annotated work aims to give as complete and
as correct as possible idea of what has been published on Ibn Sina in all European languages
(especially English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and Greek )
as well as in Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Russian, Hungarian, Hindi, and Hebrew. It covers all fields of Avicenna's thought
– not only logic and philosophy, but also the sciences and medicine. Much attention is paid to sources and influences, and,
above all, to editions and translations.
Forthcoming 2011
Well Begun is Only Half Done: Tracing Aristotle’s Political Ideas
in Medieval Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, Jewish, and Indo-Persian Sources
edited by Vasileios Syros (University of Chicago / University of Helsinki)
Forthcoming 2010
This volume is a comprehensive survey of the transmission of classical political ideas,
in particular Aristotle’s political thought, in various medieval contexts. The impact of classical political philosophy
on the evolution of medieval political ideas has been a source of major contention among scholars in recent decades
that resulted in a large number of publications and major international conferences and symposia
both in the English-speaking world and Europe. Given that the bulk of modern scholarship
on the history of medieval political philosophy has predominantly focused on the Latin tradition,
the proposed volume will deal with some hitherto neglected aspects of the reception of classical political ideas
by bringing new evidence on the fortunes of Aristotle’s political thought in the medieval Arabic; Syriac; Byzantine;
Jewish; Persian; and Indo-Islamic traditions. In addition, it will bring to the fore a number of medieval political thinkers,
such as Bar Hebraeus and Abul Fazl, and cast fresh light on their ties to the Greek tradition of political theorizing
and learning.
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Forgotten Commentators Society: Aristotle’s Political Ideas in Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Garb
Vasileios Syros (University of Chicago)
Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Political Thought in the Christian Orient and in al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes
John W. Watt (Cardiff University)
La Rhétorique d’Aristote comme moyen de diffusion des idées politiques aristotéliciennes
dans la philosophie politique arabe: les Didascalia in Rethoricam ex glosa Alpharabii
Frédérique Woerther (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Ibn Bajja and Aristotle’s Political Thought
Jules Janssens (Catholic University Leuven)
Between Enigma and Paradigm.
The Reception of Aristotle's Politica in the Near East:
The Arabic and Syriac-Aramaic Traditions
N. Peter Joosse (University of Leiden)
Aristotle’s Politics in Byzantium
Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University)
Aristotle's Politics in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought
Abraham Melamed (University of Haifa)
La contestation des fins de la politique selon Aristote chez quelques auteurs juifs du moyen âge tardif en Espagne
Jean-Pierre Rothschild (Ecole pratique des hautes etudes & CNRS)
ISBN: 978-0-86698-436-2 / MR 388
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