Constantine the African and 'Alī Ibn Al-'Abbās Al-Mağūsī

The Pantegni and Related Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-10014-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 789 g

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Medicine

When the tenth-century Kamil as-sina‘a (or al-Kitab al-malaki) of ‘Ali ibn al-‘Abbas al-Magusi was adapted for a Latin-reading audience by Constantine the African in the late eleventh century, the medieval West had, for the first time, the opportunity to use a text which covered the whole of medicine. But the 100-odd extant manuscripts suggest that Contantine's Pantegni was put together over a considerable period of time, and chapters from other Latin and newly-translated Arabic medical works were added to or substituted those of the Kamil. This book is the first to be devoted to Constantine the African: it sheds light on the School of Salerno and the formation of a medical corpus in the High Middle Ages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacquart, Danielle

Burnett, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Burnett, Ph.D. (Cambridge, 1976), Lecturer in the history of Arabic/Islamic influence in Europe in the Middle Ages at the Warburg Institute, University of London, has written over fifty articles on the transmission of Arabic learning and medieval European culture. His books include an edition of Hermann of Carinthia's De essentiis (Brill, 1982) and a collection of essays on Adelard of Bath (Warburg Institute, 1987).
Danielle Jacquart is Professor at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris, Sorbonne), where she holds the chair of "Histoire des sciences au Moyen Age". Her publications deal with medieval medicine and Arabo-Latin translations. She has published: La médicine arabe et l'Occident médiéval (Maisonneuve-et-Larose, 1989).