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Roman North Africa : environment, society and medical contribution
- Title
- Roman North Africa : environment, society and medical contribution / Louise Cilliers.
- Author
- Cilliers, Louise
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
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- Description
- 256 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix. These four medical writers, whose translation into Latin of precious Greek texts has been hailed as "the achievement of the millennium" by one modern scholar, provide a unique opportunity to understand North Africa, the most prosperous region of the Roman World during Late Antiquity. Although focusing on medical knowledge and hygiene, their writings provide fresh insights on the environment, economy, population, language, and health facilities of the region. This study includes the first full discussion of the exceptional career of the physician Helvius Vindicianus, as well as a valuable reassessment of other writers whose works were read throughout the Middle Ages. It will therefore be invaluable not only for scholars of Late Antiquity and North Africa, but also for those working on later periods.
- Series Statement
- Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 3
- Uniform Title
- Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 3.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11323
- ISBN
- 9789462989900
- 9462989907
- 9789048542680 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1076548562
- Author
- Cilliers, Louise, author.
- Title
- Roman North Africa : environment, society and medical contribution / Louise Cilliers.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 3Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 3.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11323