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

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...

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Main Author: Vagelpohl, Uwe (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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