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oapen-20.500.12657-482882021-04-22T13:07:11Z Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros Zipser, Barbara Galen; medical practice; philosophy; alchemy bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine 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. 2021-04-22T12:51:53Z 2021-04-22T12:51:53Z 2019 book 9789004394353 9789004032211 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48288 eng Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Brill af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 fe790096-dad9-4ea9-9d97-763153e42f9d 1ce70e20-c0bc-47ac-84a9-e052888820cf f88d04a4-216e-4beb-b4b9-ca375ceb96cb 9789004394353 9789004032211 17 open access
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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.
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