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Chapter 6 The user-friendly Galen Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and the adaptation of Greek medicine for a new audience

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When a text is translated into another language and leaves its previous linguistic, cultural and social context, it also leaves its old audience behind. The new audience the text now faces has its own set of requirements, which may only partly overlap with those of the original audience. The task of...

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Main Author: Vagelpohl, Uwe (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
Subjects:
Medicine
translation
linguistic context
cultural context
greek medicine
medieveal arabic medicine
social context
new audience
Battle of Hunayn
Epidemic
Galen
Graeco-Arabic translation movement
Greeks
Hippocrates
Ibn Ishaq
Latin translations of the 12th century
Syriac language
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