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标题：Steven J. Livesey: Science in the Monastery. Texts
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作者：Steven Vanderputten
期刊名称：Sehepunkte : Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften
电子版ISSN：1618-6168
出版年度：2021
卷号：21
期号：6
语种：German
出版社：Herder-Institut, Institut für Zeitgeschichte
摘要：Former accounts of intellectual life in the later Middle Ages postulated that the traditional monastic orders did not play a role of significance in the study and transmission of scientific texts. However, a large body of published research - to which this book and its catalogue contributes - now highlights the involvement in university milieus of individual Benedictine and Cistercian monks, and their role in collating and copying key texts; annotating and compiling them; and finally also bringing them to regional markets. Furthermore this scholarship has also repeatedly drawn readers' attention to the fact that examining the contents of monastic libraries is one of the most efficient ways of verifying the institutional role of these orders with respect to the study and transmission of scientific content. Yet as Steven Livesey points out in the introduction to his book, quite a few such collections, particularly of Benedictine monasteries, continue to elude detailed research.