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Darrera modificació: 2020-02-18
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la - Diego Rodríguez, Irene, "Astrological medicine in Middle English: the case of Þe Booke of Ypocras", dins: Esteve Ramos, María José - Prado Pérez, José Ramón (ed.), Textual Reception and Cultural Debate in Medieval English Studies, Newcastle upon Tyne:, Cambridge Scholars, 2018, pp. 79-99.
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- A physician in the Middle Ages should not only be acquainted with basic sciences, such as Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology, but also needed to have some knowledge in Botany and Astronomy. Medieval Medicine relies heavily on the classical view of the humoral theory and the stars and planets having influence on people's health. The moon and its movement was an important element to be taken into consideration when a medical treatment was required. Hippocrates wrote on medical Astrology and his name was used authoritatively in attributed works which are likely not to have been written by him. Þe Boke of Hippocrates is one of these pseudo-Hippocratic treatises on the influence of the moon according to one's Zodiac sign, genre known as zodiacal lunary to differentiate it from other treatises also dealing with the moon, such as electionaries, destinaries and questionaries. The original treatise was written in Greek and translated into Latin in the Middle Ages. The Latin translations circulated widely in three different versions: an anonymous one from Arabic, another one by William Moerbecke and a third one by Peter Abano. We have revised Latin translations corresponding to the three groups and have transcribed the thirteen extant English manuscripts containing Hippocrates' full version of the treatise. Our aim is to find out whether the English versions come from one of the Latin translations, possibly the one by Peter Abano, or from the other two as well. To do so we will concentrate on some specific parts of the tracts: the incipit and a following paragraph about physicians behaving like blind people if they do not know astronomy, Taurus and Pisces signs, and the final part or explicit.
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- Astronomia i astrologia
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