Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-30221-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 686 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1110 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros

Zipser, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Ph.D. (2015) King’s College London, is a Wellcome
Trust Lecturer in History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He has
published on Byzantine medicine and pharmacology, cross-cultural medical
exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, the reception of the classical medical
tradition in the Middle Ages, and Greek palaeography.



Barbara Zipser, Dr. Phil. (2003) Heidelberg, is a Lecturer at Royal Holloway University whose main field of research is the manuscript tradition of Greek medical works, including the vernacular. Her research has been primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.