Description: Further DetailsTitle: CestiCondition: NewRelease Date: 06/14/2012Format: HardbackSubtitle: The Extant FragmentsISBN-10: 3110286769EAN: 9783110286762ISBN: 9783110286762Publisher: De GruyterDescription: Iulius Africanus (3rd cent.) is a fascinating writer in a period of transition. Widely travelled, he belongs to the intellectual élite of the second sophistic. His two main works present a similar encyclopedic approach, but very different contents. He can be considered the “father of Christian chronography”, since he authored the first Christian world chronicle (Chronographiae). However, he also wrote a comprehensive and multifaceted manual of many fields of knowledge, where the religious character is open to debate. The preserved fragments of the Cesti treat military, technical, medical and many other topics. These texts are presented in an entirely new critical edition. The transmission of the texts as well as questions of authenticity are highly complex. Compared to the previous edition (Vieillefond 1970), considerable progress has been reached in terms of both, quantity and quality of the material. Hitherto unknown texts have been included, and in the case of dubious authorship all necessary information is provided for a realistic picture of the transmission. In the introduction, all relevant channels of transmission are discussed. The edition is accompanied by notes and a new English translation.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 740gAuthor: Iulius AfricanusTranslator: William AdlerContributor: Martin Wallraff (Edited by), Carlo Scardino (Edited by), Laura Mecella (Edited by), Christophe Jean-Daniel Guignard (Edited by), William Adler (Translated by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten JahrhunderteRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Release Date: 06/14/2012
Release Year: 2012
Format: Hardback
Book Title: Cesti
Publication Name: Cesti
Title: Cesti
Subtitle: The Extant Fragments
ISBN-10: 3110286769
EAN: 9783110286762
ISBN: 9783110286762
Publisher: De Gruyter
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 230mm
Item Length: 155mm
Item Weight: 740g
Author: Iulius Africanus
Translator: William Adler
Contributor: William Adler (Translated by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Series: Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunde
