Published by De Gruyter

Byzantinisches Archiv – Series Medica

Edited by: Albrecht Berger

ISSN: 2700-5739

e-ISSN 2702-5594

Overview
Volumes

Byzantinisches Archiv – Series Medica is dedicated to the new and rapidly growing field of research into Byzantine medical literature of professional use. It considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research on Byzantine medicine based on solid philological and medical-historical foundations. Its aim is to publish critical editions, source-based analyses of Byzantine medical literature, and conference volumes. Each volume is written and edited by leading scholars in the field. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Editors in Chief: Albrecht Berger and Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Munich)

Editorial Board: Robert Alessi (Paris), Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (Mainz), Anna Maria Ieraci Bio (Neapel), Frederick Lauritzen (Venedig), Rosa Maria Piccione (Turin), Peter Schreiner (Köln/München), Ilias Valiakos (Larissa)

Topics

Book 2020

Untersuchungen zur Iatromagie in der byzantinischen Zeit

Zur Tradierung gräkoägyptischer und spätantiker iatromagischer Motive

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann

Volume 1 in this series

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The reception of Greco-Egyptian iatromagic in Byzantine medical practice literature is a culturo-historical phenomenon with multiple meanings. The rational interpretation of unconventional therapeutic concepts stands at the threshold of a transformation thanks to new considerations concerning medical ethics and patient-focused care.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110619041
ISBN:: 9783110619041
ISBN:: 9783110618310
ISBN:: 9783110612929
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Antike und byzantinische ›Compendia Medica‹

Ihre Intention und Dimension für die Medizin- und Pharmaziegeschichtsschreibung

Paul Gonetz

Volume 3 in this series

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How were early modern doctors supposed to include ancient medical authorities like Hippocrates and Galen in their own work? The modern history of medicine had to ask itself this question in the nineteenth century as it wrangled with philology for the right to edit medical texts. This work reveals how modern doctors read "the ancients": as medicine’s ancestors, as the authors of founding texts, as colleagues.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111062020
ISBN:: 9783111062020
ISBN:: 9783111062907
ISBN:: 9783111058238
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Science and Medicine
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Byzantine Medicine and Charitable Foundations

From Constantinople to the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice

Frederick Lauritzen

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Byzantine medicine and charitable foundations are essential parts of the culture of Constantinople. From the establishment of the new roman capital in 330 till its fall in 1453 the study and practice of medicine was often associated with charitable institutions (such as euageis oikoi) which may have inspired similar foundations in Venice (le Scuole Grandi) whose charitable and sometimes medical aspects are comparable to the byzantine ones. Each contributor addresses these questions and together they allow one to form an idea of how medicine was studied and often practiced in charitable foundations. The study of medicine in all its aspects is a central concern of byzantine culture. Each byzantine citizen was confronted with medicine during his or her life and would have known the charitable foundations, not only for their social function, but also as buildings visible on a daily basis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110999303
ISBN:: 9783110999303
ISBN:: 9783111000640
ISBN:: 9783111000497
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Publisher:: De Gruyter