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Caelius Aurelianus and His Work
Medical Practices, Intellectual History, Textual Transmission
Series: - Studies in Ancient Medicine, Volume: 60
Volume Editor:
The aim of this book is to take stock of the state of the art in scholarship on Caelius Aurelianus as well as offer new perspectives on this important figure; while doing that, to insert him and his work within current historiographies of medicine and ancient world studies. Thirty years after the last extensive publication devoted to Caelius, the contributions in this volume bring attention back to this important author, and offer new perspectives on his work, contributing to the presently flourishing literature on medicine and science (and their transmission) in the late antique period and beyond.
CHIARA THUMIGER is a researcher at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Her work focuses on ancient Greek and Roman thought and literature, the history of ancient medicine and the history of psychiatry, as well as on environmental and comparative approaches to anthropology of medicine and body history. She is the author of A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), editor of Holism in Ancient Medicine and its Reception (Brill 2020) and author of Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Contributors are: Chiara Thumiger, Philippe Mudry, Nicolas Lamare, Marke Ahonen, Krystal Marlier, Jean-Christophe Courtil, George Kazantzidis, David Kaufman, Lesley Bolton, David Leith, Susan Prince, Domenico Pellegrino, Anna Maria Urso, Caroline Petit, Gabriel A.F. Silva, Manuel E. Vázquez Buján, Pierre-Henri Ortiz.
Contributors are: Chiara Thumiger, Philippe Mudry, Nicolas Lamare, Marke Ahonen, Krystal Marlier, Jean-Christophe Courtil, George Kazantzidis, David Kaufman, Lesley Bolton, David Leith, Susan Prince, Domenico Pellegrino, Anna Maria Urso, Caroline Petit, Gabriel A.F. Silva, Manuel E. Vázquez Buján, Pierre-Henri Ortiz.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
âChiara Thumiger
Fifteen Centuries of Caelius Aurelianus: A Bibliography
2 The Doctor of Sicca Veneria: Caelius Aurelianus and His Geographical, Social and Cultural Milieu
âNicolas Lamare and Chiara Thumiger
3 Something Sitting on Their Chest: Caelius Aurelianus on incubo
âMarke Ahonen
4 Delusions of Madmen in Caelius Aurelianus: Tradition and Innovation (Chron. 1, 150â152 = 518.33â520.17 Bendz)
âGeorge Kazantzidis
5 Caelius Aurelianus on Groundless Emotions, Emotional Blindness, and Madness
âDavid Kaufman
6 Is Sex Good or Bad for Health?
Controversies over the Usefulness of Intercourse in Caelius Aurelianus
âJean-Christophe Courtil
7 Alleviating Patient Burden
Use of Benign Deception and Soothing Therapeutic Methods in Caelius Aurelianusâ De morbis acutis and De morbis chronicis
âKrystal Marlier
8 Dying for Caelius
âLesley Bolton
9 Beyond the KoinotÄtes: Individual Diseases and Caelius Aurelianusâ Methodism
âDavid Leith
10 Hydrophobia and the Methodist: How Caelius Aurelianus Comprehends a Disease within His Medical Framework
âSusan Prince
11 A Doctrine in Evolution: The Methodical Theory of koinotÄtes in Caelius Aurelianusâ diaphonia
âDomenico Pellegrino
12 Caelius Aurelianus on the âInvention of Psychiatryâ
âPierre-Henri Ortiz
13 Between Medicine and Philology: The Contribution of Robert Constantin to the editio Rovilliana of Caelius Aurelianus
âAnna Maria Urso
14 From Caelius Aurelianus to Prospero Alpini: The Value of Eclecticism in Medicine
âCaroline Petit
15 Caelius Aurelianus and the Portuguese Renaissance Medicine: Some Notes on His Influence
âGabriel A.F. Silva
16 Some Remarks on the Indirect Tradition of Caelius Aurelianus (or Soranus)
âManuel E. Vázquez Buján
17 Les archives Caelius Aurelianus de Jackie Pigeaud (â â¯2016) et son projet dâédition du 1er livre des Maladies aiguës
âPhilippe Mudry
18 Penser la médecine: Regards sur lâÅuvre de Jackie Pigeaud
âPhilippe Mudry
Index Rerum
Index Locorum
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
âChiara Thumiger
Fifteen Centuries of Caelius Aurelianus: A Bibliography
Part 1 Caelius Aurelianus in Context
2 The Doctor of Sicca Veneria: Caelius Aurelianus and His Geographical, Social and Cultural Milieu
âNicolas Lamare and Chiara Thumiger
Part 2 Medical Practice: Nosology, Pathology, Therapeutics
3 Something Sitting on Their Chest: Caelius Aurelianus on incubo
âMarke Ahonen
4 Delusions of Madmen in Caelius Aurelianus: Tradition and Innovation (Chron. 1, 150â152 = 518.33â520.17 Bendz)
âGeorge Kazantzidis
5 Caelius Aurelianus on Groundless Emotions, Emotional Blindness, and Madness
âDavid Kaufman
6 Is Sex Good or Bad for Health?
Controversies over the Usefulness of Intercourse in Caelius Aurelianus
âJean-Christophe Courtil
7 Alleviating Patient Burden
Use of Benign Deception and Soothing Therapeutic Methods in Caelius Aurelianusâ De morbis acutis and De morbis chronicis
âKrystal Marlier
8 Dying for Caelius
âLesley Bolton
Part 3 Intellectual Relevance and Philosophical Debates
9 Beyond the KoinotÄtes: Individual Diseases and Caelius Aurelianusâ Methodism
âDavid Leith
10 Hydrophobia and the Methodist: How Caelius Aurelianus Comprehends a Disease within His Medical Framework
âSusan Prince
11 A Doctrine in Evolution: The Methodical Theory of koinotÄtes in Caelius Aurelianusâ diaphonia
âDomenico Pellegrino
12 Caelius Aurelianus on the âInvention of Psychiatryâ
âPierre-Henri Ortiz
Part 4 Textual Transmission, Language, and Philology
13 Between Medicine and Philology: The Contribution of Robert Constantin to the editio Rovilliana of Caelius Aurelianus
âAnna Maria Urso
14 From Caelius Aurelianus to Prospero Alpini: The Value of Eclecticism in Medicine
âCaroline Petit
15 Caelius Aurelianus and the Portuguese Renaissance Medicine: Some Notes on His Influence
âGabriel A.F. Silva
16 Some Remarks on the Indirect Tradition of Caelius Aurelianus (or Soranus)
âManuel E. Vázquez Buján
Part 5 Caelius Aurelianus and Scholarship
17 Les archives Caelius Aurelianus de Jackie Pigeaud (â â¯2016) et son projet dâédition du 1er livre des Maladies aiguës
âPhilippe Mudry
18 Penser la médecine: Regards sur lâÅuvre de Jackie Pigeaud
âPhilippe Mudry
Index Rerum
Index Locorum
This study will be of interest to historians of ancient medicine, philosophy, and science; scholars working on the late antique period; on medical works in Latin; on ancient Methodism and its philosophical affiliations; on philological aspects; on the tradition and transmission of ancient authors; on the cultural and intellectual life of Roman North-Africa.
