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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:49:36 GMT

International workshop 7-8 July 2022: Malleable Texts, Fluid Authorships: Galenic Medicine and Late Antiquity.

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:59:00 GMT

Organisers: Dr. Caroline Petit (Warwick/HU) and Prof. Dr. Philip van der Eijk (HU)

Research on ancient pharmacological texts has increased dramatically in recent years. Several important projects and doctoral theses are underway, promising to deliver ground-breaking results in the next decade. In this scholarly context, various projects at the Humboldt-Universität and the university of Warwick seem to address converging questions on the changing nature of pharmacological texts across time and space. Authorship becomes more fluid, with the same text receiving various attributions; texts undergo changes of size, ordering, format, as they get adapted for new audiences. As texts become repackaged, manuscripts and papyri offer privileged evidence of those changes. Early translations of Greek works into Latin, Syriac and then Arabic result in epitomes and other reworked, shortened texts. Yet the transmission of ancient Greek pharmacology is often made difficult to apprehend due to missing links and medieval, fragmentary evidence. This workshop therefore proposes to offer complementary perspectives on those shifts, through communications on Greek, Latin and Arabic evidence. Themes that will be addressed include language, style, authorship, dating, transmission, manuscripts.

This workshop is supported by the Collaborative Research Center ‘Episteme in Motion’ (SFB 980), the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Warwick. It is hosted by the project ‘Galen of Pergamum: The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine’ of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

New book on Galen's Treatise On Simple Drugs

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:50:00 GMT

A special issue of Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences on the interpretation and transmission of Galen's treatise On simple drugs. Guest editors: Caroline Petit (Warwick), Matteo Martelli (Bologna), Lucia Raggetti (Bologna).

The volume explores the fate of Greek text across time, languages and cultures. It arises from a BA-Leverhulme-funded project, 'Rethinking Ancient Pharmacology' and a conference at the BSR in 2017.

May Coins of the Month

Fri, 01 May 2020 08:50:16 GMT

This month, in a lock down special, we have two entries for our Coin of the Month series. Nicholas Aherne discusses provincial coinage in Syria and Cristian Mondello examines two unpublished token moulds in Florence.

Tokens and religious diversity in Late Antiquity

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:44:23 GMT

British Academy Visiting Fellow Cristian Mondello explores some of the tokens of Late Antiquity in this blog.

Mary Magdalene: Why has she been so maligned?

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:41:22 GMT

Suzanne Frey-Kupper in interview by Dominic Utton for Daily Express 17 March 2018

Silbannacus - the emperor that time forgot

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:33:04 GMT

In an article for BBC History Magazine's History Extra, Professor Kevin Butcher looks at a mysterious coin of a Roman emperor whose identity is entirely unknown to history.

Roman Coins found in Japan

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:56:07 GMT

Excavations at a medieval castle in Okinawa province, Japan, turned up four Roman coins of the fourth century. Are they evidence for links between the Roman empire and Japan? Kevin Butcher investigates in an article for The Conversation.

New publication: C. Petit on 7th c. Alexandria

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:08:40 GMT

An article exploring medicine in late antique Alexandria, based on medical and hagiographic texts of the 7th c. AD.

Caroline Petit, ‘Alexandrie, carrefour des traditions médicales au 7e s.: Les témoignages de Sophrone de Jérusalem, Alexandre de Tralles, Paul d’Egine, Stéphane d’Alexandrie et Jean d’Alexandrie’ in J.-P. Caillet/B. Dumézil/S. Destephen/H. Inglebert (eds.), Aux origines des saints patrons, Paris, Picard, 2015, 287-307