An edition of Prochoros Cydones' (ca. 1330-1369/71) unpublished Greek translation of Thomas Aquinas' Quaestiones disputatae de potentia and Quaestio disputata de spiritualibus creaturis
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The thesis is a case-study of the transmission of Latin philosophical and theological texts in Byzantium in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, on the basis of an edition of the hitherto unpublished Greek translations of two of Thomas Aquinas’ Quaestiones disputatae of Thomas Aquinas, De potentia and De spiritualibus creaturis, by the Byzantine scholar and theologian Prochoros Cydones (ca. 1330-1369/71). These two works are the only cases of this distinct, university-based philological genre, which emerged in Western Europe from early thirteenth century onwards, that were translated into Greek in Late Byzantium. The thesis also investigates Cydones’ metaphrastic process in the light of the transmission of these two texts in the extant Greek manuscripts compared against the edited Latin text. The thesis comprises an Introduction, three Parts (I-III) and a Conclusion. The Introduction consists of two Sections (1-2). Section 1 presents the aims and scope of the thesis, the approach an ...
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