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Aristotle's carp as Claretus' bird comor? Tracing the origin of one medieval term

SYSNO ASEP	0461484
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	Aristotle's carp as Claretus' bird comor? Tracing the origin of one medieval term
Author(s)	Šedinová, Hana (FLU-F)_{RID, ORCID, SAI}
Source Title	Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica.. - : Nakladatelství Karolinum - ISSN 0567-8269 -, č. 2 (2016), s. 111-123
Number of pages	13 s.
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	ancient and medieval zoology ; Latin lexicography ; Aristoteles ; Aristoteles Latinus ; Michael Scotus ; Thomas of Cantimpré ; Claretus ; carp ; komor ; comor
Subject RIV	AI - Linguistics
R&D Projects	LD13043 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
Institutional support	FLU-F - RVO:67985955
DOI	10.14712/24646830.2016.22
Annotation	The research of medieval reception of Aristotle's knowledge of zoology confirmed that on the way through the Arabic and Latin translation to mediaeval encyclopaedias Aristotle's treatises underwent both large and small alterations in both names and descriptions of animals. Sometimes medieval authors interpreted their models so incorrectly that endowed the original animal not only with a new name but also with new features of appearance and patterns of behaviour. While consulting the Latin translation of Aristotle's treatise Historia animalium and his description of the carp Thomas of Cantimpré did not comprehend that the animal was a fish and he put it under an altered name komor to the book on birds. Thomas' term then appears in a slightly different form comor in Czech medieval sources.
Workplace	Institute of Philosophy
Contact	Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360
Year of Publishing	2017
Electronic address	http://www.karolinum.cz/ink2_stat/index.jsp?include=AUC_clanek&id=2668&casopis=94&zalozka=0&predkl=0

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