Medical Traditions in and around Byzantium

An Overview

Alain Touwaide, Albrecht Berger, Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2021
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783110600704 (ISBN)

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Scholarly research has often reduced the history of medicine in Byzantium and the subsequent period to the transmission of the ancient legacy be it through the reproduction of classical texts in the Empire and later or their transmission to neighbouring cultures and their translation. Historiography increasingly brings to light both the originality and creativity of Byzantium, and its interaction with surrounding populations, making it necessary to revise the traditional narrative of the history of medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean World. The essays in the present volume pose the foundations for such a new approach. Case studies illustrate how Byzantium interacted with neighbouring cultures, sometimes in bi-directionnal exchanges resulting in the assimilation of contributions from these cultures. Going beyond, the essays presented here explore the medical traditions in presence, offering a survey of sources, methods of research, and problems. Through its cross-cultural, comprehensive treatment, the volume will be a reference for years to come for historians of medicine and medical texts, and the starting point of a new approach to the history of medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean World.

A. Touwaide, Inst. Preservation of Medical Traditions and The Huntington, USA; A. Berger, I. Grimm-Stadelmann, LMU Munich, Germany.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Medical Traditions ; 3
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
Schlagworte	Byzantinisches Reich • Medizin • Medizingeschichte
ISBN-13	9783110600704 / 9783110600704
Zustand	Neuware