Ratios and Music in the Late Middle Ages: a Preliminary Survey

Abdounur, Oscar João

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“…57 Abdounur demonstrates that through the version of Adelard of Bath, the Boethian terminology for ratio predominated during the High Middle Ages, and that in the 14 th -century Algorismus proportionum, Oresme uses differentia to express what we would call the "division of ratios" today. 58 In Boethius' De divisione, differentia is an essential concept. It indicates "that in respect of which we indicate that one thing differs from another"; 59 this definition resembles Sacrobosco's initial statement: differentia vero quam per illam ostenditur qualiter figura sequens differe a precedente, or "[the meaning of the term] differentia is shown in this way: how [in the continually increasing series of decimal places] [the power of each] consecutive figure differs from the preceding."…”

Section: Arabisms In the Liber Abacimentioning

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Medieval Literature in Comparative Perspective

Petrocchi

2019

Journal of Medieval Worlds

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This paper provides a textual comparison of selected primary sources on medieval mathematics written in Sanskrit and medieval Latin for the first time. By emphasising literary features instead of purely mathematical ones, it attempts to shed light on a neglected area in the study of scientific treatises which concerns lexicon and argument strategies. The methodological perspective takes into account the intellectual context of knowledge production of the sources presented; the medieval Indian and Latin traditions are historically connected, in fact, by one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of knowledge transfer across cultures: the transmission of the decimal place value system. This cross-linguistic analysis compares and contrasts the versatile textuality and richness of forms defining the interplay between language and number in medieval Sanskrit and Latin works; it employs interdisciplinary methods (Philology, History of Science, and Literary Studies) and challenges disciplinary boundaries by putting side by side languages and textual cultures which are commonly treated separately. The purpose in writing this research is to expand upon recent scholarship on the Global Middle Ages by embracing an Eastern literary culture and, in doing so, to promote comparative studies which include non-European traditions. This research is intended as a further contribution to the field of Comparative Medieval Literature and Culture; it also aims to stimulate discussion on cross-linguistic and cross-cultural projects in Medieval Studies.

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Section: Arabisms In the Liber Abacimentioning

confidence: 99%

Medieval Literature in Comparative Perspective

Petrocchi

2019

Journal of Medieval Worlds

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Ratios and Music in the Late Middle Ages: a Preliminary Survey

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Medieval Literature in Comparative Perspective

Medieval Literature in Comparative Perspective

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