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Roman North Africa
Environment, Society and Medical Contribution
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English
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2019
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This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix.
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Cilliers Louise :
Louise Cilliers is currently Honorary Research Fellow (and formerly Professor of Classical Languages) at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. For many years she served as the editor of the international journal Acta Classica. She has published numerous articles on ancient medicine, Late Antique North Africa, and related subjects.
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"This volume offers a wealth of material about medical practice in the late antique world. The focus is on four authors of the fourth and fifth centuries who translated Greek medical texts into Latin: Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix. These are not names familiar even to North African specialists and so this book is a welcome contribution to the expansion of knowledge of this important region of the Roman empire in late antiquity. Particularly fascinating for me was the discovery of so many women who not only practised medicine but also wrote about it."
- Geoffrey D. Dunn, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Volume 16, 2020
- Geoffrey D. Dunn, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Volume 16, 2020
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Table of contents
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Acknowledgements
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Preface
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1. History, environment, population and cultural life
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2. Health facilities in the cities of Roman North Africa
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3. Greek, Roman and Christian views on the causes of infectious epidemic diseases
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4. The knowledge and competence of physicians in the late Roman Empire
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5. Vindicianus
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6. Theodorus Priscianus on drugs and therapies
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7. More fifth-century Latinizers
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8. Augustine and the medical scene in Roman North Africa in the late fourth and early fifth centuries
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9. Reciprocal influences
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10. The role of Roman North Africa in the preservation and transmission of medical knowledge
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Bibliography
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Index Locorum
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eBook published on:
April 1, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9789048542680
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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256
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39
eBook ISBN:
9789048542680
Keywords for this book
Roman North Africa; Late Antiquity; Ancient Medical History; North African Physicians
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Professional and scholarly;
