Byzantine Incubation Literature between Religion and Medicine: Food as Medicament in the Collection of Healing Miracles Performed by Saints Cosmas and Damian (BHG 373B)

Gollo, Giulia

dc.contributor.author	Gollo, Giulia
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-10T07:44:25Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-10T07:44:25Z
dc.date.issued	2022-11-21
dc.identifier.issn	2084-140X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/45834
dc.description.abstract	Byzantine incubation literature is the term used in research to denote early Byzantine collections of healing miracles (5th–7th century) in which the saint’s miraculous intervention is related to the incubation experience. Despite the centrality of the concepts of disease and healing in such literature, the relationship between medicine and Christian religion needs to be further explored. Based on the Egyptian collection of Miracles of Cosmas and Damian contained in manuscript Lond. Add. 37534 (BHG 373b) as a case study, this paper intends to: (1) present those miraculous accounts where food is treated as medicament, starting from a close reading of the relevant passages; (2) looking at the (Byzantine) medical knowledge integrated in these narratives.	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	Byzantine incubation literature	en
dc.subject	Miracles of Cosmas and Damian	en
dc.subject	material culture	en
dc.subject	food as medicament	en
dc.subject	Byzantine history of food	en
dc.title	Byzantine Incubation Literature between Religion and Medicine: Food as Medicament in the Collection of Healing Miracles Performed by Saints Cosmas and Damian (BHG 373B)	en
dc.type	Article
dc.page.number	75-93
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	University of Cologne, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln, Germany; KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Greek Studies, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven, Belgium	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2449-8378
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	giulia.gollo97@gmail.com
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/2084-140X.12.15
dc.relation.volume	12

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