Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon

Barbara Zipser

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9788376560229
• eBook ISBN:
  9788376560236
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: European Medieval History

"Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon", an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a Latin-Greek-Arabic medical dictionary from the late 13th century.
In the individual articles, written by well-known scholars, authorities in their fields of research, Simon and his major work, are approached from different perspectives and as a whole. The volume offers a comprehensible and well-balanced collection of current research on Simon and Clavis sanationis.
The volume demonstrates the importance of the Clavis, not only for the history of pharmacology and medicine, but also for Byzantine and medieval studies, Roman, Greek, Latin and Arabic philology and lexicography.
Barbara Zipser (Doctor of Philosophy, Wellcome Trust University Award 2006, 2010) is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture, History Department, Royal Holloway University of London. Her main field of research is Greek medicine from Galen to the late Middle Ages, with an emphasis on textual criticism, manuscript transmission, and the formation of Greek vernacular terminology.
Dr Zipser is a well-known and promising young scholar in the field of Ancient and Medieval Medicine. She runs Simon Online (http://www.simonofgenoa.org) – the joint edition and translation project of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis, a dictionary of Latin, Greek and Arabic medical terminology in Wiki format.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Vivian Nutton Simon of Genoa and Medieval Medicine
• Peregrine Horden Medicine at the Papal Court in the Later Middle Ages: a Context for Simon of Genoa
• Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London) Simon of Genoa’s Clavis sanationis: a Study of Th
• Siam Bhayro (University of Exeter) Simon of Genoa as an Arabist
• Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Simon of Genoa’s Use of the Breviarium of Stephen, the Discipl
• Marie Cronier Dioscorides Excerpts in Simon of Genoa’s Clavis sanationis
• Valerie Knight Simon and the Tradition of the Latin Alexander of Tralles
• Caroline Petit Galen’s Pharmacological Concepts and Terminology in Simon of Genoa’s Clavis sanationi
• Barbara Zipser Simon Online, an Alternative Approach to Research and Publishing
• Bibliography
• General Index
• Index of Manuscripts