Simon of Genoa's medical lexicon / edited by Barbara Zipser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zipser, Barbara.

Contributor:

Zipser, Barbara, editor.

Series:

Versita Discipline: History, Archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simon, of Genoa, active 13th century.

Simon.

Medicine, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Versita, Versita Limited, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon", an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project - a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a Latin-Greek-Arabic medical dictionary from the late 13th century. In the individual articles, written by well-known scholars, authorities in their fields of research, Simon and his major work, are approached from different perspectives and as a whole. The volume offers a comprehensible and well-balanced collection of current research on Simon and Clavis sanationis. The volume demonstrates the importance of the Clavis, not only for the history of pharmacology and medicine, but also for Byzantine and medieval studies, Roman, Greek, Latin and Arabic philology and lexicography. Barbara Zipser (Doctor of Philosophy, Wellcome Trust University Award 2006, 2010) is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture, History Department, Royal Holloway University of London. Her main field of research is Greek medicine from Galen to the late Middle Ages, with an emphasis on textual criticism, manuscript transmission, and the formation of Greek vernacular terminology. Dr Zipser is a well-known and promising young scholar in the field of Ancient and Medieval Medicine. She runs Simon Online (http://www.simonofgenoa.org) - the joint edition and translation project of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a dictionary of Latin, Greek and Arabic medical terminology in Wiki format.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Vivian Nutton, Simon of Genoa and Medieval Medicine

Peregrine Horden, Medicine at the Papal Court in the Later Middle Ages: a Context for Simon of Genoa

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis: a Study of Thirteenth-Century Latin Pharmacological Lexicography

Siam Bhayro, Simon of Genoa as an Arabist

Charles Burnett, Simon of Genoa's Use of the Breviarium of Stephen, the Disciple of Philosophy

Marie Cronier, Dioscorides Excerpts in Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis

Valerie Knight, Simon and the Tradition of the Latin Alexander of Tralles

Caroline Petit, Galen's Pharmacological Concepts and Terminology in Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis

Barbara Zipser, Simon Online, an Alternative Approach to Research and Publishing

General Index

Index of Manuscripts

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

1013963780