Avicenna's De anima in the Latin West : the formation of a peripatetic philosophy of the soul, 1160-1300 /
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| Author / Creator: | Hasse, Dag Nikolaus. |
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| Imprint: | London ; Turin : The Warburg Institute, c2000. |
| Description: | x, 350 p ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Warburg Institute studies and texts ; 1 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4466139 |
| Summary: | In the 12th century the Book of the Soul by the philosopher Avicenna was translated from Arabic into Latin. It had an immense success among scholastic writers and deeply influenced the structure and content of many psychological works of the Middle Ages. The reception of Avicenna's book is the story of cultural contact at an imipressively high intellectural level. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 350 p ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0854811257 |