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  • Chapter 7 - The Byzantine and Medieval Periods

  • Chiara Thumiger, Cluster of Excellence Roots, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany
  • Book:
    <i>Phrenitis</i> and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought
    Published online:
    16 November 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023, pp 224-286
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    As the narrative moves beyond the highways of the Graeco-Roman medical traditions, and enters the post-antique reception and elaboration of this canon, the dynamics of translation and assimilation into different languages and cultural milieus become more relevant. Chapter 7 explores the Byzantine transmission of the ancient material, at first sight more faithfully based on Galenic models and their encyclopaedic abridgements, and then the Syriac and Arabic traditions and the problems posed by translation when it comes to such a loaded term as phrenitis. The chapter moves on to the medieval medical sources in Latin (translations from the Arabic, as well as original elaborations in Latin, especially those of the school of Salerno) and to the medical writings produced in Arabic in the Iberian peninsula by Arabic and Jewish authors.