Greek Medical Literature and its Readers

From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium

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Contributor(s)
Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (editor)
Xenophontos, Sophia (editor)
Language
English
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Abstract
Medicine; Greek; Roman; History
URI
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37530
Keywords
history; greek; roman; medicine; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing
ISBN
9781351205276;9781472487919
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publisher website
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/
Publication date and place
2018
Imprint
Routledge
Review type
Proposal
Anonymity
Single-anonymised
Reviewer type
Internal editor; External peer reviewer
Review stage
Pre-publication
Open review
No
Publish responsibility
Publisher

Chapters in this book

  • Chapter 9 Reading Galen in Byzantium
    Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (2018)
    In this chapter, I shall focus on the Galenic corpus, whose dissemination in the Byzantine world was widespread and influential; in particular, I have chosen to examine the various revivals of Galen’s Therapeutics to ...
  • Chapter 6 The user-friendly Galen
    Vagelpohl, Uwe (2018)
    When a text is translated into another language and leaves its previous linguistic, cultural and social context, it also leaves its old audience behind. The new audience the text now faces has its own set of requirements, ...
  • Chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics
    Thumiger, Chiara (2018)
    To summarise our findings, the Hippocratic Epidemics case reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, despite the ambiguities and historical uncertainties about the texts’ composition and transmission, were ...