Brill's companion to the reception of Galen / / edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Barbara Zipser.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception ; Volume 17
• Author: Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros
• TeilnehmendeR: Zipser, Barbara,; Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Galenic Works1 -- Notes on Contributors -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser -- Galen in Late Antiquity and Byzantium -- Galen’s Early Reception (Second–Third Centuries) / Antoine Pietrobelli -- Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- Galen’s Legacy in Alexandrian Texts Written in Greek, Latin, and Arabic / Ivan Garofalo -- Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia / Barbara Zipser -- Textual Transmission of Galen in Byzantium / Paola Degni -- Galen in Non-medical Byzantine Texts, 600–1453 / Dionysios Stathakopoulos -- Galen in the Medieval Islamic World -- The Reception of Galen in the Syriac Tradition / Siam Bhayro -- Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq and the Creation of an Arabic Galen / Glen M. Cooper -- From Commentary to Polemic: the Reception of Galen by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī / Pauline Koetschet -- Avicenna between Galen and Aristotle / Gotthard Strohmaier -- The Reception of Galen after Avicenna (Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries) / Miquel Forcada -- Maimonides and Galen / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs / Nahyan Fancy -- The Reception of Galen in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah / Robert Alessi -- The Reception of Galenic Pharmacology in the Arabic Tradition / Leigh Chipman -- Galen in the Medieval West -- Gloriosissimus Galienus: Galen and Galenic Writings in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Latin West / Monica H. Green -- Arabic-Latin Translations: Transmission and Transformation / Brian Long -- Translating Galen in the Medieval West: the Greek-Latin Translations / Anna Maria Urso -- Galen in the Medieval Universities, 1200–1400 / Michael McVaugh -- Galenic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Galen’s On the Capacities of Simple Drugs and its Reception between the Sixth and Fourteenth Century / Iolanda Ventura -- Galen in the Renaissance and Beyond -- Editions and Translations of Galen from 1490 to 1540 / Stefania Fortuna -- ‘Galenic’ Forgeries of the Renaissance: an Overview on Commentaries Falsely Attributed to Galen / Christina Savino -- Renaissance Galenism, 1540–1640: Flexibility or an Increasing Irrelevance? / Vivian Nutton -- Galen in an Age of Change (1650–1820) / Maria Pia Donato -- Galen into the Modern World: from Kühn to the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / †Piero Tassinari -- Galen in Other Cultures -- The Reception of Galen in Hebrew Medieval Scientific Writings / Carmen Caballero-Navas -- The Reception of Galen in the Armenian Tradition (Fifth–Seventeenth Centuries) / Alessandro Orengo and Irene Tinti -- Galen in the Late Antique, Byzantine, and Syro-Arabic Alchemical Traditions / Matteo Martelli -- Galen in Asia? / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim -- Medieval Portraits of Galen / Stavros Lazaris.