Workshop: Medical traditions in and around Byzantium
14.07.2017
Medical traditions in and around Byzantium
Munich, 14th and 15th July 2017
Ludwig Maximilian University, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München, Room A 017 (main building)
This workshop is jointly organized by the Departments of Byzantine studies and of the History of Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, in collaboration with the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions in Washington, DC.
The care for the health of populations in the Byzantine World has been little explored in scholarly research, however important a component of Byzantine life it might have been. Just as in other sectors, Byzantium did not only further develop the legacy of Antiquity and transmit it to the worlds with which it was in contact, but it also received the contributions of these worlds and assimilated them in an active way in constant evolution over time. The workshop will examine the different medical traditions in and around Byzantium with the aim to lay down the basis for a renewed approach to medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean, multicultural, aggregative, and dynamic.
The Organizers: Albrecht Berger and Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich) – Alain Touwaide (Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, DC)
Co-funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Münchner Vereinigung für Geschichte der Medizin e. V., and the Ärztlicher Verein München e. V..
Program
14th July 2017 | |
14.15–14.30 | Albrecht Berger Opening and introduction |
14.30–15.00 | Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann Traces of Ancient Egyptian wisdom in Byzantine Medical Literature |
15.00–15.30 | Ilias Valiakos Antidotarium magnum, Antidotarium Nicolai, and the Dynameron of Nikolaos Myrepsos |
15.30–16.00 | Koray Durak Byzantine Exports of Materia Medica to the Islamic World |
16.00–16.30 | - coffee break - |
16.30–17.00 | Nikolai Serikoff Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his Greek manual. A Re-discovery |
17.00–17.30 | Alain Touwaide Arabic into Greek. Revisiting Symeon Seth |
17.30–18.00 | Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi Reading Literature, Practicing Medicine. Râzi and his Arabic and Persian colleagues |
15th July 2017 | |
9.30–10.00 | Siam Bhayro and Stefanie Rudolf Syriac medical handbooks and the persistence of the Greco-Roman and Mesopotamian sciences |
10.00–10.30 | Helena Paavilainen Melancholy and its Treatment in Jewish Medical Sources |
10.30–11.00 | - coffee break - |
11.00–11.30 | Caroline Macé Greek Christian sources of Armenian medical thought |
11.30–12.00 | Ramaz Shengelia Georgian Medical Manuscripts and Texts: History and Peculiarity |
12.00–12.30 | Klaus-Dietrich Fischer ‚Beifang‘ im lateinischen Oribasius: Die Streuüberlieferung griechischer medizinischer Werke |
12.30–14.00 | - lunch break - |
14.00–14.30 | Danilo Valentino Similar Medicine, Different Eras. Iatrosophia from Byzantium to Early-Modern Greece |
14.30–15.00 | Patricia Clark The iatrosofion. Recent Connections with Ancient Greek and Byzantine Medicine |
15.00–16.00 | - final discussion - |
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