360. Dag N. Hasse on Arabic Learning in the Renaissance

Posted on 22 November 2020

An interview with Dag Nikolaus Hasse on the Renaissance reception of Averroes, Avicenna, and other authors who wrote in Arabic.

Themes:

Astrology and magic

Interviews

Sciences (e.g. astronomy, optics, zoology)

Translations and Textual Transmission

Further Reading

• D.N. Hasse, “Aristotle versus Progress: The Decline of Avicenna´s De animaas a Model for Philosophical Psychology in the Latin West,” in J.A. Aertsen and A. Speer (eds), Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter? (Berlin: 1998), 871-80.

• D.N. Hasse, Avicenna’s De Anima in the Latin West. The Formation of a Peripatetic Philosophy of the Soul, 1160-1300 (London: 2000).

• D.N. Hasse, “Aufstieg und Niedergang des Averroismus in der Renaissance: Niccolò Tignosi, Agostino Nifo, Francesco Vimercato,” in J.A. Aertsen and M. Pickavé (eds), “Herbst des Mittelalters”? Fragen zur Bewertung des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: 2004), 447-73.

• D.N. Hasse, “The Attraction of Averroism in the Renaissance: Vernia, Achillini, Prassicio,” in P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, M.W.F. Stone (eds), Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries (London: 2004) vol. 2, 131-47.

• D.N. Hasse, “The Social Conditions of the Arabic-(Hebrew-)Latin Translation Movementsin Medieval Spain and in the Renaissance,” in A. Speer and L. Wegener (eds), Wissen über Grenzen: Arabisches Wissen und lateinisches Mittelalter (Berlin: 2006), 68-86.

• D.N. Hasse, “Spontaneous Generation and the Ontology of Forms in Greek, Arabic, and Medieval Latin Sources,” in P. Adamson (ed.), Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception (London: 2007), 150-75.

• D.N. Hasse, Latin Averroes Translations of the First Half of the Thirteenth Century (Hildesheim: 2010).

• D.N. Hasse and A. Bertolacci (eds), The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics (Berlin: 2012).

• D.N. Hasse, "Averroes' Critique of Ptolemy and its Reception by John of Jandun and Agostino Nifo," in P.J.J.M. Bakker (ed.), Averroes' Natural Philosophy and its Reception in the Latin West (Leuven: 2015), 69-88.

• D.N. Hasse, Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance (Cambridge MA: 2016).

• D.N. Hasse and A. Bertolacci (eds), The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Physics and Cosmology (Berlin: 2018).

Prof Hasse's online Arabic and Latin Glossary

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