Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, 17)

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. Contents Acknowledgements Figures Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Galenic Works Notes on Contributors Note to the Reader Introduction Part 1 Galen in Late Antiquity and Byzantium Chapter 1 Galen’s Early Reception (Second–Third Centuries) Chapter 2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks Chapter 3 Galen’s Legacy in Alexandrian Texts Written in Greek, Latin, and Arabic Chapter 4 Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature Chapter 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia Chapter 6 Textual Transmission of Galen in Byzantium Chapter 7 Galen in Non-medical Byzantine Texts, 600–1453 Part 2 Galen in the Medieval Islamic World Chapter 8 The Reception of Galen in the Syriac Tradition Chapter 9 Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq and the Creation of an Arabic Galen Chapter 10 From Commentary to Polemic: the Reception of Galen by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī Chapter 11 Avicenna between Galen and Aristotle Chapter 12 The Reception of Galen after Avicenna (Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries) Chapter 13 Maimonides and Galen Chapter 14 Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs Chapter 15 The Reception of Galen in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah Chapter 16 The Reception of Galenic Pharmacology in the Arabic Tradition Part 3 Galen in the Medieval West Chapter 17 Gloriosissimus Galienus: Galen and Galenic Writings in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Latin West Chapter 18 Arabic-Latin Translations: Transmission and Transformation Chapter 19 Translating Galen in the Medieval West: the Greek-Latin Translations Chapter 20 Galen in the Medieval Universities, 1200–1400 Chapter 21 Galenic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Galen’s On the Capacities of Simple Drugs and its Reception between the Sixth and Fourteenth Century Part 4 Galen in the Renaissance and Beyond Chapter 22 Editions and Translations of Galen from1490 to 1540 Chapter 23 ‘Galenic’ Forgeries of the Renaissance: an Overview on Commentaries Falsely Attributed to Galen Chapter 24 Renaissance Galenism, 1540–1640: Flexibility or an Increasing Irrelevance? Chapter 25 Galen in an Age of Change (1650–1820) Chapter 26 Galen into the Modern World: from Kühn to the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum Part 5 Galen in Other Cultures Chapter 27 The Reception of Galen in Hebrew Medieval Scientific Writings Chapter 28 The Reception of Galen in the Armenian Tradition (Fifth–Seventeenth Centuries) Chapter 29 Galen in the Late Antique, Byzantine, and Syro-Arabic Alchemical Traditions Chapter 30 Galen in Asia? Chapter 31 Medieval Portraits of Galen Index Rerum et Nominum Index Locorum 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.0The 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