Brill's companion to the reception of Galen / / edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Barbara Zipser.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception ; Volume 17
• Author: Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros
• TeilnehmendeR: Zipser, Barbara,; Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Dedication --; Acknowledgements --; Figures --; Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Galenic Works1 --; Notes on Contributors --; Note to the Reader --; Introduction /; Galen in Late Antiquity and Byzantium --; Galen’s Early Reception (Second–Third Centuries) /; Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks /; Galen’s Legacy in Alexandrian Texts Written in Greek, Latin, and Arabic /; Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature /; Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia /; Textual Transmission of Galen in Byzantium /; Galen in Non-medical Byzantine Texts, 600–1453 /; Galen in the Medieval Islamic World --; The Reception of Galen in the Syriac Tradition /; Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq and the Creation of an Arabic Galen /; From Commentary to Polemic: the Reception of Galen by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī /; Avicenna between Galen and Aristotle /; The Reception of Galen after Avicenna (Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries) /; Maimonides and Galen /; Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs /; The Reception of Galen in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah /; The Reception of Galenic Pharmacology in the Arabic Tradition /; Galen in the Medieval West --; Gloriosissimus Galienus: Galen and Galenic Writings in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Latin West /; Arabic-Latin Translations: Transmission and Transformation /; Translating Galen in the Medieval West: the Greek-Latin Translations /; Galen in the Medieval Universities, 1200–1400 /; Galenic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Galen’s On the Capacities of Simple Drugs and its Reception between the Sixth and Fourteenth Century /; Galen in the Renaissance and Beyond --; Editions and Translations of Galen from 1490 to 1540 /; ‘Galenic’ Forgeries of the Renaissance: an Overview on Commentaries Falsely Attributed to Galen /; Renaissance Galenism, 1540–1640: Flexibility or an Increasing Irrelevance? /; Galen in an Age of Change (1650–1820) /; Galen into the Modern World: from Kühn to the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum /; Galen in Other Cultures --; The Reception of Galen in Hebrew Medieval Scientific Writings /; The Reception of Galen in the Armenian Tradition (Fifth–Seventeenth Centuries) /; Galen in the Late Antique, Byzantine, and Syro-Arabic Alchemical Traditions /; Galen in Asia? /; Medieval Portraits of Galen /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004394354
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Barbara Zipser.

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.