Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 10 : History and Culture of Byzantium
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Subject: Classical Studies
This compendium examines the history and culture of the Byzantine world from the foundation of Constantinople (324) to the Ottoman conquest of the city, which brought the final downfall of the Byzantine Empire (1453). A detailed 100-page introduction is followed by discussion of 15 key topics, including politics and government, people and society, legislation and legal practice, the army and navy, church and religion, nature and the environment, art and architecture, languages, literature, education and culture, medicine and music. Because the work forms part of Brill's New Pauly, particular attention is paid to aspects of continuity with the ancient world, and of innovation.
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A. The texts: transmission and (putative) authorsWas an institution comparable to the modern hospital and its medical services established in the Byzantine Empire (as [10] contends)? Answers can be sought not only in the documentary and narrative evidence on the Byzantine
xenones and
nosokomeia (13.2. Hospitals) and the presence or absence of doctors there, but also in medical texts. Any claim that Byzantine
xenones were centres of medical expertise and training must be scrutinized in the light of the texts connected to those very institutions, that is, the
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Date:
2019-10-14