Article ID: CBB207385093

The Diffusion and Influence of Arabic Medicine in Late Medieval Europe: An Overview (2020)

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Arabic medicine had a great influence on Western medicine: numerous texts were translated from the Arabic into Latin from the XIth to the XIVth century, some of them becoming textbooks in the universities until the Renaissance. However, if the various stages of this diffusion are well known, several questions remain: How Arabic was the medicine the Latin physicians practiced from the XIIth to the XVIth century? Were the Western authors aware of the Arabic character of the works they used? To answer these questions, this article focuses on two approaches: a statistical one, studying the importance of Arabic texts amidst all of those possessed and studied by Latin physicians in university curricula, in their libraries and their manuscripts; and a subjective one, trying to understand to what extent Latin physicians considered the Arabic medicine they practiced as truly Arab, and how their attitude started to change towards the end of the middle ages.

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Authors & Contributors
Violet Moller
Pietrobelli, Antoine
Chabás, José
McVaugh, Michael Rogers
Giglioni, Guido
al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Translations
Medicine
Manuscripts
Arabic language
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
Early modern
Ancient
8th century
17th century
Places
Europe
Mediterranean region
Salerno (Italy)
Córdoba (Spain)
Toledo (Spain)
Baghdad (Iraq)
Institutions
Royal College of Physicians of London
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