The II CHAM (Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar) international conference at Lisboa, Portugal from July 15-18, 2015 will revolve around the theme Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges.
Christine Salazar, Matteo Martelli and Lennart Lehmhaus of SFB 980 – Episteme in Motion, Berlin are the convenors of the day-long panel Medical knowledge in motion: exchange, transformation and iteration in the medical traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean world. The panel seeks to bring together scholars to explore the transfer of Graeco-Roman medical knowledge in different cultural contexts from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Members of the research team around BabMed Principal Investigator Markham J. Geller will put their results up for discussion to their international audience at the Lisbon panel.
For further information please contact:
christine.salazar@hu-berlin.de
martellm@cms.hu-berlin.de
lennart.lehmhaus@fu-berlin.de
or see SFB 980 – Episteme in Motion
Please find the panel programme published below.
The full conference programme is shown here.
Igor Itkin
Medical knowledge in motion: exchange, transformation and iteration in the medical traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean world.
Panel programme
July 16, 2015
9:40-11:00
Matteo Martelli and Christine Salazar (Berlin), Galen and Aetius of Amida on the medical uses of earths and minerals – reception and transformation.
The paper will compare selected passages about earths and minerals from Galen’s ‘On Simple Remedies’, book IX, with similar ones in Aetius of Amida (6th century). Through a close reading of these chapters, we will explore some aspects both of Galen’s approach to the topic and of its later reception.
Irene Calà (Paris), The therapeutic use of mineral amulets in medical works of Late Antiquity.
The paper will offer a view on the medical use of amulets in the medical works of the 6th and 7th century AD. I will examine the relations between the works of Aetius of Amida, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Egina and their sources.
Lucia Raggetti (Berlin), Mediaeval Arabic Mineralogy: Galen vs Pseudo-Aristotle.
This paper compares the structure and the contents of the Arabic translation of the IX book on minerals in the ‘De Simplicium Medicamentorum’ by Galen, with the Pseudo-Aristotle ‘On Stones’, outlining two complementary tendencies in Mediaeval Arabic mineralogy.
11:30-13:00
Lennart Lehmhaus and Tanja Hidde (Berlin), Diet and Regimen in the Two Talmudic Traditions from Palestine and Babylonia.
The presentation focuses on the category of “Diet & Regimen” within the medical passages of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud and its connection to the Greco-Roman medical corpus of Late Antiquity.
Shulamit Shinnar (New York), Rabbinic Techniques for Examining Parturient Tissue: Considering the Place of Greco-Roman Medical Traditions within the Talmudic Corpus.
The paper focuses on a series of rabbinic texts that describe techniques for dissecting and examining parturient tissue. It will contextualize these techniques within the broader context of Greco-Roman medical traditions in late antiquity.
Chariklia Tziraki (Jerusalem), Custom Designing Offspring in the Babylonian Talmud.
Reprogenetics, is the episteme of designing offspring. In TB texts, women are pivotal to technologies controlling progeny. The interplay of science/social forces of Greco-Roman origin and those specific to TB are examined.
14:30-16:00
Ricarda Gäbel (Berlin), Changing and rearranging medical knowledge – Aetius of Amida and his dealing with the sources of the sixth book of his Libri medicinales.
The paper aims at having a closer look at the way Aetius of Amida deals with his sources and it thereby addresses the question how he changes and rearranges them and how reliable his references to the sources are. The basis of my considerations is the sixth book of the Libri medicinales.
Harith Bin Ramli (Cambridge), Graeco-Roman Medical Knowledge and the Body in Early Sufism.
The Qūt al-qulūb of Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī (d.996) is one of the earliest texts the Sufi tradition. This paper looks at the theory of body employed in this work and what it tells us about the growing reception of Greek science among Sunni traditionalists in the tenth century C.E.
Carmen Caballero Navas (Granada), Greek gynaecology in Jewish robes. The Hebrew translation of Soranus of Ephesus’ Gynaecology from Muscio’s Latin adaptation.
This paper examines one of the earliest gynaecological texts produced in Hebrew, Sefer ha-toledet, which is Muscio’s fifth-sixth century abridged and simplified Latin version of Soranus of Ephesus’ Gynaecology, rendered into Hebrew by Doeg ha-Edomi in 1197-1199 in Provence.
16:30-18:00
Amir Ashur and Efraim Lev (Haifa), A Medical Recipe by Maimonides from Medieval Egypt.
A newly discovered medical recipe written by Maimonides from the Cairo Geniza sheds light on the medicinal substances he used. To identify these substances and put them in the wide context of medieval medicine stands in the focus of this paper.
Florentina Badalanova Geller (Berlin), Slavonic Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates: Slavonic witnesses.
Previously untranslated and undiscussed Old Church Slavonic Texts labelled as ‘of Galen on Hippocrates – for which there is no known existant Greek Vorlage – will be presented as examples of Wissenstransfer.
Esther Fernández (Granada), Between magic and science: Morisco healing practices in early modern Spain.
This paper will show the peculiarities of the medical and magical outcomes of the Morisco community in early modern Spain as the product of Arabic and Scholastic scientific currents and Muslim-Christian hybridization. The presentation focuses on the category of “Diet & Regimen” within the medical passages of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud and its connection to the Greco-Roman medical corpus of Late Antiquity.
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