Reconstructing Middle Byzantine Arabo-Greek Astrology from Later Greek Manuscripts
Joe Glynias
This paper sheds light on one aspect of the large-scale influx Arabic scientific knowledge into Byzantium through an analysis three Byzantine astrological compendia that contain texts originally written in Greek as well those translated from to Greek. While c. 1200–1400, each manuscript contains a compilation was assembled eleventh and twelfth centuries. The first considers dating compilations shows utility using these late manuscripts study Middle astrology. Second, it analyzes uses them explain chronology scale translation material Third, how is combined within manuscripts, what resulting synthesis says about astrology writ large.
Mediterranea