Inter-cultural Transmission of Intellectual Traditions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period A comparative perspective Warsaw, 27th-29th September 2012 Abstract book Warsaw 2012 Edited by: Olga Grinchenko, Christian Sahner, Adam Izdebski Published by the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw & Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences © the authors Publication of this booklet was funded by the Ministry of Research and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland (Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) within the scheme of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (Narodowy Program Rozwoju Humanistyki), project nr 21H 11 0007. 2 Contents Session Ia: REVIVING OF ANCIENT MOTIVES AND LITERARY DEVICES .......................................................... 5 Weronika Sygowska-Pietrzyk (Warsaw): Flavio Biondo’s “Roma instaurata” as an example of transmission of ancient texts and the spread of Renaissance writing in fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Katarzyna Bożeńska (Warsaw): The art of travelling and exploration of cultural “otherness” in early modern Europe .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Piotr Kołodziejczyk (Warsaw): Monsters without form. The possible similarities in Aristotle's theory of monsters and the monstrous child in The King of Tars ............................................................................. 7 Michał Czerenkiewicz (Warsaw): The prescriptions of waging war in view of the history and literary tradition according to Simon Starowolski (ca 1588-1656) ........................................................................ 9 Barbara Grondkowska (Lublin): Patristics and Exegesis: the Presence of the Church Fathers in the Sixteenth-Century Sermons ..................................................................................................................... 10 Session Ib: LITERATURE/LEARNING AND IDENTITY ..................................................................................... 12 Emilio Bonfiglio (Geneva): The Language and the Topics of the Armenian Fathers in the Golden Age of Armenian Literature: the Case of John Mandakuni................................................................................. 12 Evina Steinova (The Hague): Reception of the ancient systems of reference in Early Middle Ages ....... 13 Boris Todorov (Sofia): The universal chronicles in Church Slavic: the implications of availability .......... 16 Lilly Stammler (Sofia): St. Maximos Kausokalybites and the 14th century peripatetic asceticism .......... 18 Session IIa: CONTEXTS OF RECEPTION OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS: MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EAST .................... 20 Benjamin de Lee (Oregon): Aristotle in Arabic and Greek: Inter-religious debate and the Revival of Aristotelianism in the ninth-century eastern Mediterranean ................................................................. 20 Anna Izdebska (Warsaw): The career of the Pythagorean Golden Verses among the Arabs ................. 21 Jakub Sypiański (Paris): The Arabs and the scientific renaissance in Constantinople in the first half of 9th century .............................................................................................................................................. 24 Eliza Karczyńska (Poznań): 'Resigned Reason' – Ancient Heritage and the Formation of Arab Reason. A Critical Survey of al-Jabri Thought ........................................................................................................... 27 Paolo Lucca (Venice): Free Will and Determinism in Eznik of Kołb ......................................................... 27 Session IIb: CONTEXTS OF RECEPTION OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS: RENAISSANCE & THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD ......................................................................................................................................................... 28 Anna Kowalcze-Pawlak (Cracow): Living the Lives of Witches: Aristotle, Revenge and Female Nature 28 Johannes Thon (Halle-Wittenberg): The Transmission of Islamic language conceptions to Christian hebraists by Jewish Hebrew grammarians .............................................................................................. 29 Ada Łobożewicz (Warsaw): Transmission of Western Hermetic Tradition to Poland in the XVIth and XVIIth century .......................................................................................................................................... 30 Mykhaylo Yakubovych (Ostroh): Reception of ibn Sina in Early Modern Ottoman Philosophy: Case of al- Aqkirmani ................................................................................................................................................ 31 Session III: PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS OF DIFFERENT CULTURES ........................... 33 3 Tobias Winnerling (Düsseldorf): Stuck between the logics. Jesuits’ and Buddhists’ East Asian debates in the 16th century ....................................................................................................................................... 33 Michał Choptiany (Cracow): Ioannes Broscius and calendars. Chronology in the service of irenicism and proselytism .............................................................................................................................................. 35 Anna Kołos (Poznań): Skepticism as the intellectual attitude towards faith and reason in 17th century Poland. A comparative study of literature in reference to Western philosophy .................................... 36 Session IV: TRANSMISSION OF LEGAL IDEAS ............................................................................................... 38 Adam Izdebski (Warsaw): Transmission versus adaptation in the Byzantine Farmer’s Law (Nomos Georgikos) ................................................................................................................................................ 38 Natalia Ivanusa (Giessen): An Example of Legal Transmission: Magdeburg Law in the Cities in Lesser Poland ...................................................................................................................................................... 42 Maria Joanna Filipiak (Göttingen): Romanization of legal practice in Polish cities of the 16th century on the example of Bartlomiej Groicki ........................................................................................................... 43 Session V: THE ROLE OF INTERCULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN THE FORMATION OF CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS IDENTITY ...................................................................................................................................................... 45 Filip Doroszewski (Warsaw): Christianizing Dionysus: some remarks on the cultural unity of Late Antique Egypt .......................................................................................................................................... 45 Marijana Vuković (Budapest): Uncovering the Original Language of Early Christian Martyrdoms among Inter-culturally Transmitted Textual Versions ......................................................................................... 46 Olga Grinchenko (Oxford): Calendrical features of the Byzantine Pasltika and Asmatika and their transmission into Slavonic liturgical books.............................................................................................. 48 Session VI: INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE'S ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL IDENTITY ...................................................................................................................................................... 49 Paweł Figurski (Warsaw): Epistola dedicatoria Mathildis Suevae (sent ca. 1025) – intercultural transmission of idea of christianization between Piasts and nobles of the German Reich .................... 49 Vitaliy Shchepanskiy (Ostroh): Intercultural religious relations of Ukraine and Scandinavia in the 10th– 12th century ............................................................................................................................................ 50 Karolina Wiśniewska (Warsaw): ‘Turcken puechlein’ in the Circuit of Intercultural Transmission of the pre-Mohács Habsburg Monarchy ............................................................................................................ 52 Anna Horeczy (Warsaw): Venice as the model of the respublica mixta in Polish political thought of the 16th and 17th century ............................................................................................................................. 54 Natalia Zientek (Warsaw): Seventeenth-century diaries as evidence of intercultural relations ............ 57 Piotr Chmiel (Warsaw): Tutti scismatici, tutti corrotti. The perception of Georgia and of the Georgians in regard to their confession according to the letters produced by Italian missionaries and travelers (Pietro Avitabile, Cristoforo Castelli, Pietro della Valle) of the 17th century .......................................... 59 4 Session Ia: REVIVING OF ANCIENT MOTIVES AND LITERARY DEVICES Weronika Sygowska-Pietrzyk (Warsaw): Flavio Biondo’s “Roma instaurata” as an example of transmission of ancient texts and the spread of Renaissance