A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine : the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica /

The veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about the care and medical treatment of horses, donkeys, and mules in late antiquity and the Byzantine period. This book provides a guide both to its intriguing contents, and to its complex textual h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCabe, Anne Elena
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford studies in Byzantium.
Subjects:
Hippocrates.
Hippocrates
Horses > Diseases > Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine > Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine > Byzantine Empire > Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine, Medieval.
Horse Diseases > therapy
History, Ancient
History, Medieval
Veterinary Medicine > history
Chevaux > Maladies > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Médecine vétérinaire > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Médecine vétérinaire > Empire byzantin > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Médecine grecque et romaine.
Médecine médiévale.
Medicine, Medieval
Horses > Diseases
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Veterinary medicine
Diergeneeskunde.
Handschriften.
Paarden (dieren)
Klassieke oudheid.
Byzantijnse rijk.
Byzantium
Byzantine Empire
Early works
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Plates; Abbreviations; Introduction; Manuscripts of the Hippiatrica; Editions and Translations of the Text; Studies of the Hippiatrica; The Form of the Hippiatrica; The Sources of the Hippiatrica; Anatolius; Eumelus; Apsyrtus; Pelagonius; Theomnestus; Hierocles; Hippocrates; The Compilation and Evolution of the Hippiatrica; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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