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oapen-20.500.12657-482912022-04-28T12:27:07Z Chapter 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia Zipser, Barbara Galen; Byzantine; iatrosophia bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine Within the academic community there are a number of common and widespread prejudices about the nature of iatrosophia. Iatrosophia are usually regarded as vernacular compilations of medical texts lacking structure or intellectual value and being of a purely practical scope. In addition, because they are often transmitted in only one manuscript, iatrosophia are viewed as ‘dead ends’ of the transmission. Even though these views capture some characteristics of the majority of known iatrosophia, they hardly suffice in defining a genre. For instance, a number of texts fit the description but are not called iatrosophia. Moreover, there are texts called iatrosophia that do not fit this description. Because of these very basic problems in understanding the genre, it is necessary to take a look at the evidence to determine what iatrosophia actually are before examining the reception of Galen in such works. 2021-04-22T13:07:10Z 2021-04-22T13:07:10Z 2019 chapter 9789004302211 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48291 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK543076.pdf Brill Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 4b34feed-01e7-483f-a452-638f73b92be1 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9789004302211 Wellcome 13 039752 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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Within the academic community there are a number of common and widespread
prejudices about the nature of iatrosophia. Iatrosophia are usually
regarded as vernacular compilations of medical texts lacking structure or intellectual
value and being of a purely practical scope. In addition, because they
are often transmitted in only one manuscript, iatrosophia are viewed as ‘dead
ends’ of the transmission. Even though these views capture some characteristics
of the majority of known iatrosophia, they hardly suffice in defining a
genre. For instance, a number of texts fit the description but are not called
iatrosophia. Moreover, there are texts called iatrosophia that do not fit this
description.
Because of these very basic problems in understanding the genre, it is necessary
to take a look at the evidence to determine what iatrosophia actually
are before examining the reception of Galen in such works.
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