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Theodore Metochites (1270–1332) was a Byzantine author and philosopher. His extant works comprises 20 Poems in dactylic hexameter, 18 orations (Logoi), Commentaries on Aristotle's writings on natural philosophy, an introduction to the study of Ptolemaic astronomy (Stoicheiosis astronomike), and 120 essays on various subjects, the Semeioseis gnomikai.
List of medieval European scientists This page was last edited on 28 January 2023, at 13:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Pages in category "Medieval occupations" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Auxiliary ...
Medieval scientists (30 C, 1 P) * Technology in the Middle Ages (5 C, 14 P) 0–9. 5th century in science (3 C) ... Pages in category "Science in the Middle Ages"
These advances are virtually unknown to the lay public of today, partly because most theories advanced in medieval science are today obsolete, and partly because of the caricature of the Middle Ages as a supposedly "Dark Age" which placed "the word of religious authorities over personal experience and rational activity." [2]
A regional affiliate of the Medieval Academy of America, the Association holds an annual conference each fall somewhere in the state of Texas. TEMA also sponsors sessions each May at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, as well as each July at the International Medieval Conference in Leeds, England.
A map of medieval universities and major monasteries with library in 1250. Philosophical and scientific teaching of the Early Middle Ages was based upon few copies and commentaries of ancient Greek texts that remained in Western Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Most of them were studied only in Latin as knowledge of Greek ...
To be included in this list an obsolete occupation should in the past have employed significant numbers of workers (hundreds or thousands as evidenced by, for example, census data). [1] [2] Some rare occupations are included in this list, but only if they have notable practitioners, for example alchemist or phrenologist.