Fernand Van Steenberghen's Aristotle in the West, in Leonard Johnston's English translation, published by E. Nauwelaerts in 1955, is a standard scholarly account. Its strength is that it traces in detail how Aristotle's works reached the Latin West through Arabic translation and commentary, including the 1210 and 1231 Paris condemnations and the rise of Scholasticism. Its limit is the ordinary one for a mid twentieth century scholarly synthesis: later specialist studies have refined some details of the transmission history it lays out.
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Tier one: a standard scholarly account tracing in detail how Aristotle's works reached the Latin West through Arabic translation and commentary, including the 1210 and 1231 Paris condemnations and the rise of Scholasticism. Its limit is the ordinary one for a mid twentieth century scholarly synthesis: later specialist studies have refined some details of the transmission history it lays out. NotesThe standard account of Aristotle's transmission through Arabic translation and commentary into the Latin West, including the 1210 and 1231 Paris condemnations and the rise of Scholasticism. Use for the Aristotelianism fact, alongside the already-catalogued Stanford Encyclopedia entries on Avicenna (44580) and Averroes (44581).
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AuthorFernand Van Steenberghen, translated by Leonard Johnston
PublisherE. Nauwelaerts
Publication Year1955
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Paris, Cities This source names Paris directly: "including the 1210 and 1231 Paris condemnations and the rise of Scholasticism."
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
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- Philosophical Schools, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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