Byzantine Medicine: Professional Interaction between Tradition and Innovation by #UniLodz Podcasts published on 2023-12-13T15:00:00Z Byzantine Medicine: Professional Interaction between Tradition and Innovation Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann Byzantine Medicine to a certain degree continues the ancient and late antique medical tradition but the significant difference lies in the application of innovative focusses and questions. In her lecture, prof. Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) discusses such factors as, inter alia, critical evaluation and redaction of the traditional sources, clinical and therapeutical experiences, additions and innovations in the field of pharmaceutics and materia medica, including “alternative healing” by “recycling” Graeco-Egyptian iatromagical motifs, which made Byzantine medicine a unique branch of knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean. *** The 30th Rector’s Lecture was held November 8 2023 at the Biedermann’s Palace, accompanying the project: Horizons of the humanities 2023: Lodz meetings with foreign researchers of Antiquity, Middle Ages and Modern Period conducted by the Ceraneum Centre, University of Lodz. The event was funded by the Rector of the University of Lodz as well as by the Lodz City Council under the framework of the „Łódź Akademicka – Naukowa, Kreatywna i Wielokulturowa 2022/23” programme. Genre Science
