An example of the tradition of Galenism in medieval Castilian sapiential literature: the liber philosopho
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The Liber philosophorum moralium antiquorum –and its Arabic
(Mokhtâr al-Hikam wa-mahāsim al-kalim) and Spanish version (BocaUniversidad Pontificia de Salamanca
82 Sonia Madrid Medrano
dos de oro)– arguably represents one of the best examples of Gnomic
literature circulating in Spain under the reign of Alphonse X. The
king sponsored the book not only to instruct his people, but also
to promote wisdom as the chief charismatic virtue of rulers and
monarchs. The book features physician and philosopher Galen as
one of its auctoritas. Galen’s doctrines and philosophies (Galenism)
came to rank among the most influential in the Medieval period.
The present article offers a thorough study and a critical edition of
the chapter devoted to Galen in the Liber, in order to contribute a
new testimony of the reception of Galen in late medieval culture,
most notably in literary traditions which do not comply with the
so-called «technical literature».
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