Medical Traditions in and around Byzantium
Touwaide, Alain / Berger, Albrecht / Grimm-Stadelmann, Isabel
Scholarly research has often reduced the history of medicine in Byzantium and the subsequent period to the transmission of the ancient legacy be it through the reproduction of classical texts in the Empire and later or their transmission to neighbouring cultures and their translation. Historiography increasingly brings to light both the originality and creativity of Byzantium, and its interaction with surrounding populations, making it necessa...