A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine [[electronic resource] ] : the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica / / Anne McCabe

• Autore: McCabe Anne Elena
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Disciplina: 636.1/089
• Soggetto topico: Horses - Diseases; Veterinary medicine; Veterinary medicine - Byzantine Empire; Medicine, Greek and Roman
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Plates; Abbreviations; Introduction; Manuscripts of the Hippiatrica; Editions and Translations of the Text; Studies of the Hippiatrica; The Form of the Hippiatrica; The Sources of the Hippiatrica; Anatolius; Eumelus; Apsyrtus; Pelagonius; Theomnestus; Hierocles; Hippocrates; The Compilation and Evolution of the Hippiatrica; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about the care and medical treatment of horses, donkeys, and mules in late antiquity and the Byzantine period. This book provides a guide both to its intriguing contents, and to its complex textual history. - ;How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables to the mediev
• Titolo autorizzato: A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine
• ISBN: 1-383-04220-9; 1-281-16475-5; 9786611164751; 0-19-153510-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813203003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in Byzantium.