Les traditions médicales autour de Byzance

Medical traditions in and around Byzantium

Workshop 

Munich, 14th and 15th July 2017

Ludwig Maximilian University, 

Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 

80539 München, Room A 017 (main building)

This workshop is jointly organized by the Departments of Byzantine studies and of the History of Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, in collaboration with the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions in Washington, DC.

The care for the health of populations in the Byzantine World has been little explored in scholarly research, however important a component of Byzantine life it might have been. Just as in other sectors, Byzantium did not only further develop the legacy of Antiquity and transmit it to the worlds with which it was in contact, but it also received the contributions of these worlds and assimilated them in an active way in constant evolution over time. The workshop will examine the different medical traditions in and around Byzantium with the aim to lay down the basis for a renewed approach to medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean, multicultural, aggregative, and dynamic.

The Organizers: Albrecht Berger and Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich) – Alain Touwaide(Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, DC)

Co-funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

14th July 2017 

14.15–14.30 Albrecht Berger

Opening and introduction

14.30–15.00 Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann

Traces of Old Egyptian wisdom in Byzantine Medical Literature

15.00–15.30 Ilias Valiakos

Antidotarium magnum, Antidotarium Nicolai, and the Dynameron of Nikolaos Myrepsos

15.30–16.00 Koray Durak

Byzantine Exports of Materia Medica to the Islamic World

16.00–16.30 - coffee break -

16.30–17.00 Nikolai Serikoff

The circulation of medical knowledge between Byzantium and the Arabic World

17.00–17.30 Alain Touwaide

Arabic into Greek. Revisiting Symeon Seth

17.30–18.00 Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi

Medicine between books and practice: The Persian physician Razi

15th July 2017 

9.30–10.00 Siam Bhayro and Stefanie Rudolf

Syriac medical handbooks and the persistence of the Greco-Roman and Mesopotamian sciences

10.00–10.30 Helena Paavilainen

Melancholy and its Treatment in Jewish Medical Sources

10.30–11.00 - coffee break -

11.00–11.30 Caroline Macé

Greek Christian sources of Armenian medical thought

11.30–12.00 Ramaz Shengelia

Georgian Medical Manuscripts and Texts. History and Peculiarity

12.00–12.30 Klaus-Dietrich Fischer

‚Beifang‘ im lateinischen Oribasius: Die Streuüberlieferung griechischer medizinischer Werke

12.30–14.00 - lunch break - 

14.00–14.30 Danilo Valentino

Similar Medicine, Different Eras. Iatrosophia from Byzantium to Early-Modern Greece

14.30–15.00 Patricia Clark

The iatrosofion. Recent Connections with Ancient Greek and Byzantine Medicine

15.00–16.00 - final discussion -