Of matter and man. The development of Christian medical anthropology in early Byzantium and its relation to ancient philosophy, medicine and the Church Fathers. KU Leuven
The present project intends to delineate the development of Christian medical anthropology in the crucial period of transmission of the intellectual heritage from antiquity to the Middle Ages through a comparative and contextualized study of a representative corpus of Byzantine texts on the constitution of man from the 7th through the 9th c. A.D. Founded on the Platonic tradition, a basic premise for any account on the nature of humankind in ...