John the Physician's Therapeutics [[electronic resource] ] : a medical handbook in vernacular Greek / / by Barbara Zipser

• Autore: Zipser Barbara
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 pages)
• Disciplina: 610.938
• Soggetto topico: Medicine, Medieval; Medicine, Greek and Roman
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: An unusual topic -- The text -- Other texts -- The manuscript tradition -- Editorial methods -- Language, place and date -- Medical practice.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Therapeutics of John the Physician is a medical handbook from the thirteenth century, holding important new evidence on medicine as craft. Of particular interest is a vernacular version of the text, which also contains a commentary. Here, an unknown reviser vividly describes cases and medical procedures, a type of knowledge rarely encountered in scholarly texts. In the present volume, the Therapeutics is published for the first time, along with a translation and an introduction to the topic. Apart from insights into medical history, the text also yields a large quantity of new material on the medical terminology used in everyday language and brings to life the development from ancient to modern Greek. The editorial technique may be of interest to those working on digital humanities.
• Titolo autorizzato: John the Physician's Therapeutics
• ISBN: 1-282-60229-2; 9786612602290; 90-474-3067-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792452003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in ancient medicine ; ; v. 37.