According to Millas, Pedro Alfonso discoursed in England on the demarkation of the true East and West, the point from which longitudes are to be calculated, the variation of the hour according to the longitude of the place where the hour is noted, the correspondence between the appearance of the zodiacal signs and the observation of eclipses, and on how, contrary to the beliefs of the age, the equ [...] INTRODUCTION 15 systems among various peoples, since for the Egyptians Septem- ber is the first month of the year, for the Jews it is the seventh, and for the Romans the ninth."4 "It is enough for us to empha- size," Professor Millas continues — and we translate — "the direct teaching of Pedro Alfonso upon Walcher, especially the Arabic sources of the astronomical doctrine which he professed conce [...] THE FORM AND THE CONTENT The structure of the Disciplina Clericalis closely resembles that of many other books written in the Middle Ages and earlier, especially in the East. [...] He reveals, as stated earlier, that he wrote the book, taking it "in part from the parables and counsels of the philosophers, in part from the parables and counsels of the Arabs, from tales and poems, and finally, from animal and bird-fables." He asserts also that he has tried to avoid anything contrary to the Catholic Faith and lays possible errors and defects before the scrutiny of his superiors [...] His contribution to the corpus of brief fiction in the West, to Europe's storehouse of plot, theme and motif, and even to the folklore of the East and the West, as his stories filtered down from literary strata into oral tradition, is a contribution of very great importance.
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- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 398.2/0917/4927
- General Note
- Translation of: Disciplina Clericalis Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781771102643 9780888442574
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- PA8395.P36
- LCCN Item number
- D513 1969eb
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- 1 electronic text (117 p.)
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00604460 (OCoLC)288120090 (CaOOCEL)420546
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
- Foreword 10
- INTRODUCTION 14
- I. Pedro Alfonso, the Man and the Scholar 14
- II. Pedro Alfonso and Literature 17
- III. The Title of the Collection of Tales and the Aim 18
- IV. The Form and the Content 22
- V. Literary Quality 26
- THE SCHOLAR'S GUIDE 32
- INDEX 116
- A 116
- B 116
- C 116
- D 116
- E 116
- F 117
- G 117
- H 117
- J 117
- K 117
- L 117
- M 117
- N 118
- O 118
- P 118
- R 118
- S 118
- T 118
- U 118
- V 118
- W 118
- Y 118
- Z 118
