Arabic Galenism from Antioch to Byzantium: Ibn Buṭlān and Symeon Seth

Arabic Galenism from Antioch to Byzantium: Ibn Buṭlān and Symeon SethMediterraneaSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RTRJZFZD/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AntoinePietrobelliMarieCronierArabic Galenism from Antioch to Byzantium: Ibn Buṭlān and Symeon Sethhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RTRJZFZDhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/RTRJZFZDhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/RTRJZFZDMediterranea72022281-315This paper investigates how Symeon Seth (second half of the eleventh century) introduced some Arabic medical heritage, especially Galenic, to Byzantium, which probably originated from his training in Antioch around 1060 with the famous Baghdadi physician Ibn Buṭlān. After providing new data on Seth’s biography, our analysis focuses on his three main medical works, whose nature and reception were very different but which are all extensively based on Arabic science: the Refutation of Galen, the On Foodstuffs and the On the Handbook of Health (the latter being, as we show, a partial translation of Ibn Buṭlān’s Taqwīm al-Ṣiḥḥa). We analyse the context of production of each of these three works, the way Seth uses and quotes (or does not quote) his Arabic sources, and their Byzantine reception. Pietrobelli, Antoine, and Marie Cronier. “Arabic Galenism from Antioch to Byzantium: Ibn Buṭlān and Symeon Seth.” Mediterranea 7 (2022): 281–315. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v7i.13665. Antoine Pietrobelli and Marie Cronier, Arabic Galenism from Antioch to Byzantium: Ibn Buṭlān and Symeon Seth, Mediterranea 7 (2022): 281–315, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v7i.13665.AntiochArab ChristiansGalenIbn ButlanNestoriansSyriac influence [Byzantine church]VII-XVIII CEXI CEmedicine