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"Transmission of classical knowledge" as a book category covers the processes by which the literature, science, philosophy, and arts of ancient Greece and Rome were preserved, transformed, and disseminated across time and cultures—from late antiquity through the medieval and early modern periods to the present. It includes studies of manuscripts, scribal practices, translation movements (e.g., Greek-to-Arabic, Arabic-to-Latin), commentaries, pedagogical curricula, and the roles of institutions (monasteries, courts, libraries, universities) and technologies (copying, printing) in shaping texts and ideas. Books in this category treat philology, codicology, paleography, reception history, and the social and intellectual contexts that produced adaptations, errors, editorial choices, and reinterpretations of canonical works, illuminating how classical knowledge was transmitted, contested, and repurposed for new audiences and disciplines.

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