An article exploring medicine in late antique Alexandria, based on medical and hagiographic texts of the 7th c. AD. Contrary to common belief, evidence points to the limits of "christianisation" and decline of medicine as an intellectual discipline at Alexandria just before the Arab conquest. Iatrosophists and clerics alike show clear awareness and acceptance not only of the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition, but also, on the same level, of more occult intellectual traditions (for example Hermetic). Moreover, late antique scholars emphasised continuity in this respect, rooting their beliefs in Galen's own views, not without reasons...

Full bibliographical details: 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