Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28697736
- Type
- B - Edited book
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10.1163/9789004394353
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-30221-1
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- This edited book, Vol. 17 in Brill’s highly-regarded series on the reception of classical authors, is a substantial contribution to knowledge, comprising 31 chapters (683 pp.), which together present a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the most influential ancient author on medicine. 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. The project, which brought together a range of international scholars, was entirely devised by Zipser and her co-editor Bouras-Vallianatos, who sought the contributions, guided and edited them, co-wrote the Introduction (pp. 1-7) and also made individual chapter contributions themselves. Zipser's own chapter ('Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia’, pp. 111-123) provides an innovative approach for present-day understanding of iatrosophia, which are commonly defined as medical collections with a practical scope. (Her chapter will also appear open access without embargo period, as funded by the Wellcome Trust.) Given the huge influence of Galen well into the early modern period, this book is assured of a wide-ranging and long-lasting influence: “Bouras-Vallianatos and Zipser should be commended for collecting into one sizeable volume contributions that cross so many temporal and geographical lines… Their volume lays the foundation for such work [to stimulate more research on Galen’s reception] and most importantly encourages a global approach to Galen”, Aileen R. Das, The Classical Review , 70, 1 (April 2020), pp. 64-7.
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