La formation du corpus galénique

Pseudo-Galenic Texts and the Formation of the Galenic Corpus


An international conference at the Warburg Institute, London
 14 and 15 May 2015
Organiser: Caroline Petit (Warwick)

The conference is supported by the Wellcome Trust, the University of Warwick, the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute.

Thursday 14 May

10.00-10.20 : Registration and welcome, tea and coffee

10.20-10.30 Welcome address (Prof. Greg Woolf, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies).

10.30-10.45 Caroline Petit (Warwick): Pseudo-Galenic texts from antiquity to the Renaissance: different patterns (an introduction)

Antiquity (chair: Simon Swain)

10.45-11.15 Vivian Nutton (UCL):  Crumbs from the rich man’s table? Three Roman pharmacological texts.

11.15-11.45 Laurence Totelin (Cardiff): Easy Remedies - Difficult texts: the pseudo-Galenic Euporista.

11.45-12.00 tea and coffee

12.00-12.30 Véronique Boudon-Millot (CNRS, Paris): Is the Theriac to Piso attributed to Galen authentic?

12.30-13.00 Nathalie Rousseau (Paris IV-Sorbonne): Remarques sur la langue de la Thériaque à Pison 

Lunch

Oriental tradition (chair: Charles Burnett)

 

14.00-14.30 Siam Bhayro (Exeter): Galen and Pseudo-Galen in the Syriac tradition

14.30-15.00 Aileen Das (Manchester): Universalizing Medicine: the ps.-Galenic Commentary On Hippocrates 'Sevens

15.00-15.30 Mauro Zonta (Roma): About the authenticity of Galen's Perì alypìas in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew, compared to the recently found Greek text

15.30-16.00 Tea & coffee

Middle Ages (West) (chair: Cloudy Fischer)

16.00-16.30 Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez (Universidad da Coruña): An early medieval pseudo-Galen: the chapter De ponderibus medicinalibus 

16.30-17.00 Charles Burnett (Warburg): The Ps. Galenic De spermate in the middle ages 

17.00-17.30 Outi Merisalo (Jyväskylä): La fortune du De spermate dans les éditions imprimées de Galien du XVe au XVIIe s.

17.30-18.30 Reception (all participants)

Friday 15 May

Late antiquity and Byzantium (chair: Peregrine Horden)

10.15-10.45 Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (Mainz): Drugs to declare. A fresh look at some works with pharmaceutical content attributed to Galen

10.45-11.15 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (KCL): Pseudo-Galenic Texts on Urines and Pulse in Late Byzantium: The Case of Wellcome MS.MSL.60

11.15-11.45 Tea & coffee

11.45-12.15 Brigitte Mondrain (EPHE, Paris): Les traités pseudo-galéniques dans les manuscrits byzantins

12.15-12.45 Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway): Pseudo-Galenic texts in Byzantine Iatrosophia

12.45-13.15 Marie Cronier (CNRS, Paris): Les Definitiones Medicae pseudo-galéniques à Byzance

Lunch

Latin translations and editions (chair: Vivian Nutton)

14.15-14.45 Christina Savino (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): The Pseudogalenic commentaries on Hippocrates edited by G.B. Rasario (1517-1578)

14.45-15.15 Mareike Jas (Munich): Nicolaus of Rhegium as an independent witness to the text of pseudo-Galen´s historia philosopha

15.15-15.45 Stefania Fortuna (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona): Pseudo-Galenic texts in the printed editions of Galen