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Darrera modificació: 2018-04-10
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Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino (ed.), Longevity and Immortality (Europe - Islam - Asia), Florència, SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo (Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies, 26), 2018, xvi + 421 pp.
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- Contents:
* Agostino Paravicini Bagliani / Longevity and Immortality. Europe - Islam - Asia. Introductory Remarks · vii
-- General Perspectives:
* Chiara Crisciani / Death as a Destiny and the Hope of Long Life the Latin Middle Ages · 5
* Donatella Rossi / Faith or Fate? The Path towards Immortality according to the Tantric Traditions of Tibet · 27
-- Predicting Life and Death:
* Danielle Jacquart / Est-il possible et légitime pour un médecin médiéval de prévoir la longévité d'un patient? · 49
* Joseph Ziegler / Why Did the Patriarchs Live so Long? On the Role of the Bible in the Discourse on Longevity around 1300 · 79
* Rolf Scheuermann / «One Will Quickly Die!»: Predictions of Death in Three Tibetan Buddhist Divination Manuals · 113
-- Prolonging Life:
* Agostino Paravicini Bagliani / The Prolongation of Life and its Limits: Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth c. · 133
* Charles Burnett / Natural Death and the Alleviation of Old Age in the Middle Ages · 155
* Joël Coste / La «Mort de Vieillesse» dans les statistiques de mortalité (XVIIe siècle-XXIe siècle): une catégorie problématique · 169
* Didier Kahn / Quintessence and the Prolongation of Life in the Works of Paracelsus · 183
* Matthias Heiduk / A Quest for Longevity? A New Approach to the Earliest Testimonies of Medieval Alchemy · 227
* Michel Pastoureau / Longévité animale dans les traditions médiévales · 255
-- Attaining Immortality:
* Francesco Santi / Teologie della resurrezione della carne (Secc. XIII-XIV) · 267
* Anna Caiozzo / Rêves d'immortalité: trois rois, deux héros, un prophète · 283
* Manuel Förg / The Centaur's Death: The Myth of Chiron and the Transfer of Immortality · 303
* Basma A. S. Dajani / Immortality through Love in Classical Arab Literature · 321
* Barbara Hendrischke / Modes of avoiding Death in the Scripture on Great Peace (Taiping jing 太平經) · 337
* Dominic Steavu / The Marvelous Fungus and «The Secret of Divine Immortals» · 353
* Fabrizio Pregadio / Which is the Daoist Immortal Body? · 385
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