Umfang:
1 online resource (710 pages)
ISBN:
9789004394353
Serie:
Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Ser.
Inhalt:
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen offers a comprehensive account of the rich afterlife of Galen's medical works and ideas from the third century AD to the present day, across various cultures and regions, in Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Galenic Works -- Notes on Contributors -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- Part 1 Galen in Late Antiquity and Byzantium -- Chapter 1 Galen's Early Reception (Second-Third Centuries) -- Chapter 2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks -- Chapter 3 Galen's Legacy in Alexandrian Texts Written in Greek, Latin, and Arabic -- Chapter 4 Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature -- Chapter 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia -- Chapter 6 Textual Transmission of Galen in Byzantium -- Chapter 7 Galen in Non-medical Byzantine Texts, 600-1453 -- Part 2 Galen in the Medieval Islamic World -- Chapter 8 The Reception of Galen in the Syriac Tradition -- Chapter 9 Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq and the Creation of an Arabic Galen -- Chapter 10 From Commentary to Polemic: the Reception of Galen by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī -- Chapter 11 Avicenna between Galen and Aristotle -- Chapter 12 The Reception of Galen after Avicenna (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) -- Chapter 13 Maimonides and Galen -- Chapter 14 Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs -- Chapter 15 The Reception of Galen in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah -- Chapter 16 The Reception of Galenic Pharmacology in the Arabic Tradition -- Part 3 Galen in the Medieval West -- Chapter 17 Gloriosissimus Galienus: Galen and Galenic Writings in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Latin West -- Chapter 18 Arabic-Latin Translations: Transmission and Transformation -- Chapter 19 Translating Galen in the Medieval West: the Greek-Latin Translations -- Chapter 20 Galen in the Medieval Universities, 1200-1400 -- Chapter 21 Galenic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Galen's On the Capacities of Simple Drugs and its Reception between the Sixth and Fourteenth Century -- Part 4 Galen in the Renaissance and Beyond -- Chapter 22 Editions and Translations of Galen from1490 to 1540.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789004302211
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004302211
Sprache:
Englisch
