Avicenna in Renaissance Italy : : The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500 / / Nancy G. Siraisi.
The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteent...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I. The Canon as a Latin Medical Book
- I. Text, Commentary, and Pedagogy in Renaissance Medicine
- 2. The Canon of Avicenna
- Part II. The Canon in the Schools
- 3. The Canon in the Medieval Universities and the Humanist Attack on Avicenna
- 4. The Canon in Italian Medical Education After 1500
- Part III. The Canon and its Renaissance Editors, Translators, and Commentators
- 5. Renaissance Editions
- 6. Commentators and Commentaries
- Part IV. Canon Ι. Ι and the Teaching of Medical Theory at Padua and Bologna
- 7. Philosophy and Science in a Medical Milieu
- 8. Canon 1.1 and Renaissance Physiology
- Conclusion
- Appendices. Latin Editions of the Canon Published after 1500 and Manuscripts and Editions of Latin Commentaries on the Canon Written after 1500
- Selected Bibliography
- Index