Introduction: Why “Revisit” Medical Humanism in Renaissance Europe?

Why focus on “medical humanism” in 2021, a notion that may appear familiar to all and remote from current trends in research? Do we not know everything about the genesis of the Aldine editions of Dioscorides, Galen, and Hippocrates? About the great ‘medical philologists’ of the sixteenth century, f...

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Julkaisussa:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/aes,
Päätekijä: Petit, Caroline
Aineistotyyppi: Article ou chapitre numérique
Kieli:Anglais
Julkaistu: Arts et Savoirs 2021
Linkit:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Yhteenveto:Why focus on “medical humanism” in 2021, a notion that may appear familiar to all and remote from current trends in research? Do we not know everything about the genesis of the Aldine editions of Dioscorides, Galen, and Hippocrates? About the great ‘medical philologists’ of the sixteenth century, from Leoniceno to Scaliger? About the quarrel between Arabists and Hellenists? The answers to these questions are far from clear, and this collection of articles expresses a shared, deep-seated conv...