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Docu-Commencement, Brian Wallace, Kay Healy, James Johnson, Jennifer Levonian, Gilbert Plantinga
Docu-Commencement, Brian Wallace, Kay Healy, James Johnson, Jennifer Levonian, Gilbert Plantinga
Books, pamphlets, catalogues, and scrapbooks
New print, photographic, sculptural, video, and installation works based on intensive artist residencies held during Bryn Mawr College’s 2012 Commencement weekend.
Exhibition held at Bryn Mawr College Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library, from October 25 to December 14, 2012.
Celestial Divination And Arabic Science In Twelfth-Century England: The History Of Gerbert Of Aurillac’S Talking Head, Elly Truitt
Celestial Divination And Arabic Science In Twelfth-Century England: The History Of Gerbert Of Aurillac’S Talking Head, Elly Truitt
History Faculty Research and Scholarship
The legend of Gerbert of Aurillac’s oracular head reveals significant information about contemporary medieval attitudes toward foreign knowledge from outside of the Latin Christian West, and in particular about the quadrivium, astral science, and celestial divination. In particular, William of Malmesbury’s account—the most well-known in the medieval period—demonstrates the extent to which scientific knowledge from the Arabic tradition had penetrated the intellectual climate of England in the early twelfth century.
Review Of Histoires Prodigieuses (Edition De 1561), By Pierre Boaistuau, Edited By Stephen Bamforth, Annotated By Jean Céard, Elly Truitt
History Faculty Research and Scholarship
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