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Roman North Africa : Environment, Society and Medical Contribution / Louise Cilliers.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 3Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048542680
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.938 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. History, environment, population and cultural life -- 2. Health facilities in the cities of Roman North Africa -- 3. Greek, Roman and Christian views on the causes of infectious epidemic diseases -- 4. The knowledge and competence of physicians in the late Roman Empire -- 5. Vindicianus -- 6. Theodorus Priscianus on drugs and therapies -- 7. More fifth-century Latinizers -- 8. Augustine and the medical scene in Roman North Africa in the late fourth and early fifth centuries -- 9. Reciprocal influences -- 10. The role of Roman North Africa in the preservation and transmission of medical knowledge -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index
Summary: This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix.These four medical writers, whose translation into Latin of precious Greek texts has been hailed as "the achievement of the millennium" by one modern scholar, provide a unique opportunity to understand North Africa, the most prosperous region of the Roman World during Late Antiquity. Although focusing on medical knowledge and hygiene, their writings provide fresh insights on the environment, economy, population, language, and health facilities of the region.This study includes the first full discussion of the exceptional career of the physician Helvius Vindicianus, as well as a valuable reassessment of other writers whose works were read throughout the Middle Ages. It will therefore prove invaluable not only for scholars of Late Antiquity and North Africa, but also for those working on later periods.
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. History, environment, population and cultural life -- 2. Health facilities in the cities of Roman North Africa -- 3. Greek, Roman and Christian views on the causes of infectious epidemic diseases -- 4. The knowledge and competence of physicians in the late Roman Empire -- 5. Vindicianus -- 6. Theodorus Priscianus on drugs and therapies -- 7. More fifth-century Latinizers -- 8. Augustine and the medical scene in Roman North Africa in the late fourth and early fifth centuries -- 9. Reciprocal influences -- 10. The role of Roman North Africa in the preservation and transmission of medical knowledge -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index

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This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix.These four medical writers, whose translation into Latin of precious Greek texts has been hailed as "the achievement of the millennium" by one modern scholar, provide a unique opportunity to understand North Africa, the most prosperous region of the Roman World during Late Antiquity. Although focusing on medical knowledge and hygiene, their writings provide fresh insights on the environment, economy, population, language, and health facilities of the region.This study includes the first full discussion of the exceptional career of the physician Helvius Vindicianus, as well as a valuable reassessment of other writers whose works were read throughout the Middle Ages. It will therefore prove invaluable not only for scholars of Late Antiquity and North Africa, but also for those working on later periods.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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