Intro
Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations and Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction Pythagoras, from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. A Multicultural Approach
Part 1 Pythagorean Number Theory and the Quadrivium
Chapter 1 Pythagoras and the Quadrivium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Chapter 2 Music and the Pythagorean Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Chapter 3 Nicomachean Number Theory in Arabic and Persian Scholarly Literature
Chapter 4 The Tribulations of the Introduction to Arithmetic from Greek to Hebrew Via Syriac and Arabic. Nicomachus of Gerasa, Ḥabib Ibn Bahrīz, al-Kindī, and Qalonymos ben Qalonymos
Chapter 5 Medieval Jewish Pythagoreanism. Remarks on Maimonides and on Sefer Melakhim
Part 2 Pythagorean Way(s) of Life, East and West
Chapter 6 Popular Pythagoreanism in the Arabic Tradition. Between Biography and Gnomology
Chapter 7 Pythagoras' Ethics and the Pythagorean Way of Life in the Middle Ages
Part 3 Theology, Metaphysics and the Soul
Chapter 8 Pythagoras' Philosophy of Unity as a Precursor of Islamic Monotheism. Pseudo-Ammonius and Related Sources
Chapter 9 The "Brethren of Purity" and the Pythagorean Tradition
Chapter 10 "Pythagoras' Mistake": The Transmigration of Souls in the Latin Middle Ages and Beyond
Chapter 11 Pythagoras Latinus. Aquinas' Interpretation of Pythagoreanism in His Aristotelian Commentaries
Chapter 12 Latin Christian Neopythagorean Theology. A Speculative Summa
Part 4 New Trends in Early Modern Pythagoreanism
Chapter 13 Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Renaissance. Philosophical and Religious Itineraries from Pico to Brucker
Chapter 14 Pythagorean Number Mysticism in the Renaissance. An Overview
Index of Names.