Bibliography

Kees
Dekker

3 publications between 2006 and 2012 indexed

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Foundations of learning: the transfer of encyclopaedic knowledge in the early Middle Ages

Bremmer, Rolf, and Kees Dekker [eds.], Foundations of learning: the transfer of encyclopaedic knowledge in the early Middle Ages, Mediaevalia Groningana New Series, 9, Leuven: Peeters, 2007.

Manuscripts in the Low Countries

Bremmer, Rolf H., and Kees Dekker, Manuscripts in the Low Countries, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, 13, Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006.

Contributions to journals

Aldred’s appetite for encyclopaedic knowledge: the secret of warm and cold breath

Dekker, Kees, “Aldred’s appetite for encyclopaedic knowledge: the secret of warm and cold breath”, English Studies 93 (2012): 583–592.

abstract:

A series of encyclopaedic notes at the end of Durham, Cathedral Library, A.iv.19, includes a question on the origin of warm and cold breath immediately following a text listing the eight parts of which Adam was made. The two types of breath, made of fire and wind, respectively, form the spiritus . By linking the question on warm and cold breath to the history of octipartite Adam texts it has become clear that the spiritus relates to the Stoicπνϵμα or “cosmic breath”, a Stoic concept of the soul, which forms the key to the juxtaposition of these two notes.

abstract:

A series of encyclopaedic notes at the end of Durham, Cathedral Library, A.iv.19, includes a question on the origin of warm and cold breath immediately following a text listing the eight parts of which Adam was made. The two types of breath, made of fire and wind, respectively, form the spiritus . By linking the question on warm and cold breath to the history of octipartite Adam texts it has become clear that the spiritus relates to the Stoicπνϵμα or “cosmic breath”, a Stoic concept of the soul, which forms the key to the juxtaposition of these two notes.