Brill's companion to the reception of Galen /

Brill's companion to the reception of Galen /

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 cr...

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Other Authors: Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros., Zipser, Barbara.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2019.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 17.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online IV, ISBN: 9789004360280.

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Medicine, Greek and Roman > History.
Medicine, Medieval > History.
Medical literature > Greece.

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Call Number: R138

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Galenic Works1
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Note to the Reader
  • Introduction /
  • Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser
  • Galen in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
  • Galen's Early Reception (Second-Third Centuries) /
  • Antoine Pietrobelli
  • Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks /
  • Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
  • Galen's Legacy in Alexandrian Texts Written in Greek, Latin, and Arabic /
  • Ivan Garofalo
  • Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature /
  • Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
  • Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia /
  • Barbara Zipser
  • Textual Transmission of Galen in Byzantium /
  • Paola Degni
  • Galen in Non-medical Byzantine Texts, 600-1453 /
  • Dionysios Stathakopoulos
  • Galen in the Medieval Islamic World
  • The Reception of Galen in the Syriac Tradition /
  • Siam Bhayro
  • Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq and the Creation of an Arabic Galen /
  • Glen M. Cooper
  • From Commentary to Polemic: the Reception of Galen by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī /
  • Pauline Koetschet
  • Avicenna between Galen and Aristotle /
  • Gotthard Strohmaier
  • The Reception of Galen after Avicenna (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) /
  • Miquel Forcada
  • Maimonides and Galen /
  • Y. Tzvi Langermann
  • Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs /
  • Nahyan Fancy
  • The Reception of Galen in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah /
  • Robert Alessi
  • The Reception of Galenic Pharmacology in the Arabic Tradition /
  • Leigh Chipman
  • Galen in the Medieval West
  • Gloriosissimus Galienus: Galen and Galenic Writings in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Latin West /
  • Monica H. Green
  • Arabic-Latin Translations: Transmission and Transformation /
  • Brian Long
  • Translating Galen in the Medieval West: the Greek-Latin Translations /
  • Anna Maria Urso
  • Galen in the Medieval Universities, 1200-1400 /
  • Michael McVaugh
  • Galenic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Galen's On the Capacities of Simple Drugs and its Reception between the Sixth and Fourteenth Century /
  • Iolanda Ventura
  • Galen in the Renaissance and Beyond
  • Editions and Translations of Galen from 1490 to 1540 /
  • Stefania Fortuna
  • 'Galenic' Forgeries of the Renaissance: an Overview on Commentaries Falsely Attributed to Galen /
  • Christina Savino
  • Renaissance Galenism, 1540-1640: Flexibility or an Increasing Irrelevance? /
  • Vivian Nutton
  • Galen in an Age of Change (1650-1820) /
  • Maria Pia Donato
  • Galen into the Modern World: from Kühn to the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum /
  • †Piero Tassinari
  • Galen in Other Cultures
  • The Reception of Galen in Hebrew Medieval Scientific Writings /
  • Carmen Caballero-Navas
  • The Reception of Galen in the Armenian Tradition (Fifth-Seventeenth Centuries) /
  • Alessandro Orengo and Irene Tinti
  • Galen in the Late Antique, Byzantine, and Syro-Arabic Alchemical Traditions /
  • Matteo Martelli
  • Galen in Asia? /
  • Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
  • Medieval Portraits of Galen /
  • Stavros Lazaris.