Petit, Caroline (2016) Alexandrie, carrefour des traditions médicales au VIIe siècle : Les témoignages de Sophrone de Jérusalem, Alexandre de Tralles, Paul d’Egine, Stéphane d’Alexandrie et Jean d’Alexandrie. In: Caillet, Jean-Pierre and Destephen, Sylvain and Dumezil, Bruno and Inglebert, Hervé , (eds.) Des dieux civiques aux saints patrons (IVe-VIIe siècle). Textes, images et monuments de l'Antiquité au haut Moyen âge, 12 . Paris: Editions Picard, pp. 293-313. ISBN 9782708410046

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Abstract

In this paper, I explore the apparently conflicting medical authorities (Hippocrates, Galen, Democritus) mentioned in late antique medical, and non-medical, texts. I challenge the common assumptions about the progressive neutralisation of medicine in a Christian world, and argue that continuity is more important than rupture in ancient conceptions of medicine, from Galen to late antique scholars at Alexandria...

Item Type:	Book Item
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History
Series Name:	Textes, images et monuments de l'Antiquité au haut Moyen âge
Publisher:	Editions Picard
Place of Publication:	Paris
ISBN:	9782708410046
Book Title:	Des dieux civiques aux saints patrons (IVe-VIIe siècle)
Editor:	Caillet, Jean-Pierre and Destephen, Sylvain and Dumezil, Bruno and Inglebert, Hervé
Official Date:	January 2016
Dates:	Date Event January 2016 Published
Volume:	12
Number of Pages:	384
Page Range:	pp. 293-313
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
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