Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
Contributor(s)
Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (editor)
Zipser, Barbara (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East.
The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.
Keywords
Galen; medical practice; philosophy; alchemyISBN
9789004394353, 9789004032211Publisher
BrillPublisher website
http://www.brill.comPublication date and place
2019Series
Brill's Companions to Classical Reception,Classification
Medicine and Nursing
Chapters in this book
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(2019)Within the academic community there are a number of common and widespread prejudices about the nature of iatrosophia. Iatrosophia are usually regarded as vernacular compilations of medical texts lacking structure or ...
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(2019)This chapter explores the use and adaptation of the Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers. It is divided into two main sections dealing with Greek and Latin authors respectively.
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(2019)This chapter explores the various ways in which Galen was revived in the works of Byzantine medical authors by concentrating on literary output from the seventh/eighth century to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman ...
