Research Catalog

Title

Hayat kisa, sanat uzun : Bizans'ta şifa sanatı = Life is short, art long : the art of healing in Byzantium / editor: Brigitte, Pitarakis.

Publication

İstanbul : Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, Pera Museum, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Pitarakis, Brigitte
• Durak, Koray.
• Durak, Koray
• Ousterhout, Robert G.
• Pitarakis, Brigitte.
• Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson.
• Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson
• Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry.
• Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry
• Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı author, issuing body.
• Pera Müzesi author, issuing body, host institution.
• Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı, host institution.
• Pera Müzesi, issuing body.

Description

381 pages : colour illustrations, map, plan; 28 cm

Alternative Title

• Life is short, art long: the art of healing in Byzantium
• Life is short, art long : the art of healing in Byzantium

Subject

• Art, Byzantine > Exhibitions
• Medicine, Medieval > Byzantine Empire > Exhibitions
• Medicine, Medieval > Byzantine Empire > Religious aspects > Exhibitions
• Miracles > History > Exhibitions
• Therapeutics > history
• Faith Healing > history
• Hydrotherapy > history
• Diet Therapy > history
• Phytotherapy > history
• Materia Medica > history
• Medicine in art > Exhibitions
• Byzantine Empire
• Turkey

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogues.

Note

• "This catalogue has been prepared for the exhibition: 'Life is Short, Art long: The Art of Healing in Byzantium', opening between 10 February - 26 April 2015 at the Suna and İnan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum."--Page facing title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text is in Turkish and in English facing pages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dream healing : from Asklepios to the physician saints / Vincent Déroche -- Healing miracles of Christ and the saints / Nancy P. Ševčenko -- Light, water, and wondrous creatures : supernatural forces for healing / Brigitte Pitarakis -- Water and healing in Constantinople : reading the architectural remains / Robert G. Ousterhout -- Constantinople : city of miraculous healing / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Medical arts, erudition, and practice in the Byzantine capital / Marie-Hélène Congourdeau -- Contextualizing the art of healing by Byzantine physicians / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- Between the past and the East : Symeon Seth's nutritional advice to Michael VII Doukas / Frederick Lauritzen -- The manuscript tradition of Dioscorides' De materia medica from Byzantium to the Arabs / Marie Cronier -- Dioscorides and beyond : imported medicinal plants in the Byzantine Empire / Koray Durak -- Empowering healing : substgances, senses, and rituals / Brigitte Pitarakis -- The embodied self in Byzantine culture / Christos Merantzas ...

ISBN

• 9786054642427
• 6054642421

OCLC

905901468

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library