Text and tradition
Subtitle: studies in ancient medicine and its transmission : presented to Jutta Kollesch
By: edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, Paul Potter.
Contributors: Fischer, Klaus-Dietrich.; Nickel, Diethard.; Potter, Paul, 1944-
Series: Studies in ancient medicine,; v. 18
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: gre; eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Medicine, Greek and Roman.; Transmission of texts.
Description: The thirteen original studies collected in this volume range from detailed paleographical examinations of individual papyri, manuscripts and printed books to scholarly interpretations of particular medical texts in their cultural, intellectual and historical contexts. Subjects handled include an early testimony to the philosopher Empedocles, the interpretation of dreams in the Hippocratic treatise Regimen, the use of the word 'contagion' in the Roman medical writer Caelius Aurelianus, a Vienna manuscript which presents the contents of several Galenic treatises in the form of stemmatic diagrams, and the reception of Galen's medical system in Montpellier around 1300. With contributors from seven countries writing in four languages, this volume provides convincing evidence of the range and vigour of scholarship in ancient medicine at the close of the twentieth century.
Notes: Text in Greek and English.
Includes bibliographical references and index.