A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine: The Sources, Compilation and Transmission of the Hippiatrica.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c80782) has announced the addition of "A Byzantine Encyclopaedia encyclopaedia Reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge comprehensively. It is self-contained and explains subjects in greater detail than a dictionary. of Horse Medicine: The Sources, Compilation and Transmission of the Hippiatrica" to their offering. The veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about the care and medical treatment of horses, donkeys, and mules in late antiquity Late Antiquity is a rough periodization (c. AD 300 - 600) used by historians and other scholars to describe the interval between Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally between the decline of the western Roman Empire and the Byzantine period. This book provides a guide both to its intriguing in·trigue n. 1. a. A secret or underhand scheme; a plot. b. The practice of or involvement in such schemes. 2. A clandestine love affair. v. contents, and to its complex textual tex·tu·al adj. Of, relating to, or conforming to a text. tex  tu·al·ly adv. history.
How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables to the medieval scriptorium scrip·to·ri·um n. pl. scrip·to·ri·ums or scrip·to·ri·a A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records. and ultimately to the printed edition. Surviving manuscripts include both magnificent presentation copies and plain ones intended for use in the field. The Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about horses, medicine, and magic. This book provides a guide to its complex history as well as a host of fascinating details, and includes colour illustrations of a number of manuscript pages. Readership read·er·ship n. 1. The readers of a publication considered as a group. 2. Chiefly British The office of a reader at a university. : Byzantinists, classicists, scholars and students of the history of science, of the history of veterinary medicine veterinary medicine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of animals. An early interest in animal diseases is found in ancient Greek writings on medicine. Veterinary medicine began to achieve the stature of a science with the organization of the first school in the (especially for horses), historians of late antiquity, philologists of Greek and Latin. Topics Covered: List of Plates Abbreviations Introduction Manuscripts of the Hippiatrica Editions and Translations of the Text Studies of the Hippiatrica The Form of the Hippiatrica The Sources of the Hippiatrica Anatolius Eumelus Apsyrtus Pelagonius Theomnestus Hierocles Hippocrates The Compilation and Evolution of the Hippiatrica Conclusions Bibliography Index For more information, visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c80782 Source: Oxford University Press |
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