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International workshop 7-8 July 2022: Malleable Texts, Fluid Authorships: Galenic Medicine and Late Antiquity.
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.
International workshop at the BSR. Rethinking Ancient Pharmacology: the transmission and interpretation of Galen's treatise On simple drugs
An international workshop at the BSR about Galen's treatise On simple drugs, its textual transmission and interpretation throughout the ages.
22 September, British School in Rome.
Organised by Dr. Caroline Petit, Dr. Matteo Martelli & Dr. Lucia Raggetti.
PG workshop: from manuscript to printed book
From manuscript to printed book: Early Greek and Latin writings
A PG workshop on palaeography at the University of Warwick. You don't need a high level in Greek or Latin to join in...
Friday 4th March 2016, Renaissance Centre, Room H.4.50
Follow the link for detailed programme, speakers' bios and abstracts.
Convenor: Dr. Caroline Petit, University of Warwick
£10: register with renaissance@warwick.ac.uk