The conference is funded by the Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London, and the Wellcome Trust. It is part of the www.simonofgenoa.org project, a collaborative Wiki edition of Simon's clavis sanationis.

Topics: Lexicography, Classical and Medieval medicine, Byzantine studies, Semitic linguistics, Arabic medicine, Romance linguistics, digital humanities, medicinal plants.

Please see the link for information on how to register.

Registration 10.00 - 10.30

Chair: Dionysios Stathakopoulos (KCL) 10.30 - 12.00

Peregrine Horden (RHUL/Oxford): Medicine at the papal court in the high Middle Ages

Piers Mitchell (Cambridge): Attitudes of the Papal Court in the Thirteenth century to disease and treatment on crusade: a background for Simon of Genoa

Siam Bhayro (Exeter): Simon of Genoa as an Arabist

Manuscript viewing at the Wellcome Library (presented by Nikolai Serikoff)

Lunch

Chair: Vivian Nutton (UCL) 14.00 - 15.30

Caroline Petit (ICS): Galen's concepts and terminology in Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (KCL): Pharmacy in Simon's dictionary: the use of asparagus, radish and other plants from medieval to modern times

Charles Burnett (Warburg): Simon of Genoa's use of the Breviarium of Stephen of Antioch

Chair: Barbara Zipser (RHUL) 16.00 - 17.30

Florence Eliza Glaze (Coastal Univ.): Simon sees and says: lexicography and glossed copies of Gariopontus of Salerno's Passionarius

Marie Cronier (IRHT/CNRS): Dioscorides excerpts in Simon of Genoa's Clavis sanationis

Valerie Knight (Manchester): Simon and the tradition of the Latin Alexander of Tralles