Roman North Africa : Environment, Society and Medical Contribution /

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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 Gr...

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Autor principal: Cilliers, Louise (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 3
Temas:
Antiquity.
Health and Medicine.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
Literary Theory, Criticism, and History.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Ancient Medical History.
Late Antiquity.
North African Physicians.
Roman North Africa.
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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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