Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas Bücher

This work is addressed to those scholars interested in the history of medicine and particularly in Galen's works. By compiling the main bibliographical references produced from 1962 to 2012, the authors aim to explore how modern scholarship has used Galen's legacy in a number of fields: history of medicine, philosophy or Classics are some of the disciplines in which the impact of the works of Galen is still present. The contribution is meant to highlight that Galen's works constitute an important influence in the development of current and modern theories and methodologies in such fields.

In this volume Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas brings together twelve essays that deal with the role and importance of rhetoric in theology, literature and politics in Late Antiquity, more specifically in the fourth century CE. The point of departure of this book is the assumption that religious, cultural and political issues of that period were fought in the rhetorical arena. Thus aspects related to religious orthodoxy and the condemnation of heresies, to spiritual advancement, to the composition of a literary work, or to the ideological objectives of the rhetorical education in Late Antiquity are discussed in this volume. Authors such as Themistius, Libanius, Augustine, Evagrius, Firmicus, or the emperor Julian deployed in their works rhetorical devices and strategies in order to strengthen their arguments. The protean nature of rhetoric facilitated its use as a hermeneutical, persuasive and exegetical tool.