Hayat kisa, sanat uzun
Subtitle: Bizans'ta şifa sanatı = Life is short, art long : the art of healing in Byzantium
By: editor: Brigitte, Pitarakis
Publisher: Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, Pera Museum
Published: 2015
Place of publication: İstanbul
Language: tur; eng
Translated from: tur
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9786054642427
Subjects: Byzantine Art; Exhibitions; Medieval Medicine; Religious aspects; Miracles; History; Therapeutics; Faith Healing; Hydrotherapy; Diet Therapy; Phytotherapy; Materia Medica; Medicine in art
Other titles: Life is short, art long: the art of healing in Byzantium
Notes: "This catalogue has been prepared for the exhibition: 'Life is Short, Art long: The Art of Healing in Byzantium', opening between 10 February - 26 April 2015 at the Suna and İnan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum."--Page facing title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gift; photograph comp copy.

Text is in Turkish and in English facing pages.
Table of contents: title: Dream healing : from Asklepios to the physician saints / Vincent Déroche; title: Healing miracles of Christ and the saints / Nancy P. Ševčenko; title: Light, water, and wondrous creatures : supernatural forces for healing / Brigitte Pitarakis; title: Water and healing in Constantinople : reading the architectural remains / Robert G. Ousterhout; title: Constantinople : city of miraculous healing / Alice-Mary Talbot; title: Medical arts, erudition, and practice in the Byzantine capital / Marie-Hélène Congourdeau; title: Contextualizing the art of healing by Byzantine physicians / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos; title: Between the past and the East : Symeon Seth's nutritional advice to Michael VII Doukas / Frederick Lauritzen; title: The manuscript tradition of Dioscorides' De materia medica from Byzantium to the Arabs / Marie Cronier; title: Dioscorides and beyond : imported medicinal plants in the Byzantine Empire / Koray Durak; title: Empowering healing : substgances, senses, and rituals / Brigitte Pitarakis; title: The embodied self in Byzantine culture / Christos Merantzas ...