Introduction: Why “Revisit” Medical Humanism in Renaissance Europe?
Introduction: Why “Revisit” Medical Humanism in Renaissance Europe?
C. Petit
TLDR
This collection of articles expresses a shared, deep-seated desire to explore the genesis of the Aldine editions of Dioscorides, Galen, and Hippocrates in the sixteenth century.
Abstract
Why focus on “medical humanism” in 2021, a notion that may appear familiar to all and remote from current trends in research? Do we not know everything about the genesis of the Aldine editions of Dioscorides, Galen, and Hippocrates? About the great ‘medical philologists’ of the sixteenth century, from Leoniceno to Scaliger? About the quarrel between Arabists and Hellenists? The answers to these questions are far from clear, and this collection of articles expresses a shared, deep-seated convi...