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Ancient Ideas of Life and the Body“was situated in Rudolf Virchow’s Präparatesaal in the Medical History Museum | Photo: Christoph Geiger" class="slider-44575 slide-44578" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Members of the research group prepared and organised an exhibition about ancient medical and philosophical ideas on the soul-body relationship to present results of the group to a larger, non-specialist audience | Photo: C. Geiger</div></div></li> <li style='display: none;'><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Galen_deLocis.jpg" height="300" width="650" alt="Title and beginning of Galen’s De locis affectis in the Laurentianus 74,30; f. 1r (copyright: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florenz)" class="slider-44575 slide-44577" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Galen's treatises are important sources of information for philosophy and the history of medicine. The texts were subject of several studies within the research group. New translations with comments and interpretative essays are a milestone for studies on this topic.</div></div></li> <li style='display: none;'><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/20150702_pneuma-conference-topoi-650x300.png" height="300" width="650" alt="" class="slider-44575 slide-44579" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">The conference looked at the concept of pneuma from a number of perspectives and traced changes in the history of ideas of pneuma from the early Hellenistic period to the early Middle Ages</div></div></li> </ul> </div> </div> <h6 style="margin: 30 0 30 0;">The research group worked at the interface between the history of medicine and philosophy. The group examined how the faculties of the soul and the diseases of mind were localized in ancient times and how these ancient theories have contributed to the concepts of modern times.</h6> <div style="width: 230px; margin: 5 0 20 30; background: #f0f0f0; float: right;"> <div style="background: #99afc4; padding: 8px 8px 8px; color: white; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 1px;">AT A GLANCE</div> <div style="padding: 20 20 20 8; font-size: 12px; color: #003366;"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td style="height: 15px; font-size: 16px; color: #003366; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right;">18</td> <td style="color: #003366;">Researchers</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="height: 15px; font-size: 16px; color: #003366; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right;"><a href="/group/d-2/projects/">5</a></td> <td style="color: #003366;"><a href="/group/d-2/projects/">Research Projects</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="height: 17px; font-size: 16px; color: #003366; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right;"><a href="/group/d-2/projects/">4</a></td> <td><a href="/group/d-2/projects/">Dissertation Projects</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; color: #003366; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right;">70</td> <td style="color: #003366;"><a href="/group/d-2/publications/">Publications</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; color: #003366; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right;"><a href="/group/d-2/events/">27</a></td> <td style="color: #003366;"><a href="/group/d-2/events/">Events</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 16px; color: #003366; padding-right: 10px; text-align: right;"><a href="/partners/topoi-worldwide/">27</a></td> <td style="color: #003366;"><a href="/partners/topoi-worldwide/">Cooperating partners</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <p>The spatial mapping of the body and the soul and their respective faculties can be seen as a part of the philosophical and medical exploration of intra-corporeal spaces. Galen’s theory of the “places of diseases” rests on methods for inferring from diagnostic tests to the location of a “diseased place”. The group reconstructed the theoretical foundations of this method. From a metaphysical point of view, the influential Aristotelian theory of the soul confronted rival theories based on materialist metaphysics. Epicureans, Stoics, and pneuma-theorists concentrate on the nexus between spiritual and corporeal realm. The group worked on editions of the principal source texts, analyze the conceptual framework contained and track its transformations from antiquity through the medieval reception with a focus on the Arabic transmission.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Research Projects</h3> <ul class="project-lisings"> <li><a href='/project/d-2-1/'>(D-2-1) Diagnostics and semiotics. Medical methods for exploring interior bodily space and the theoretical assumptions underlying those methods</a></li><li><a href='/project/d-2-2/'>(D-2-2) Localization of intellectual faculties within the body in materialistic theories of soul-body relation (Archigenes und Poseidonios)</a></li><li><a href='/project/d-2-3/'>(D-2-3) Localization of intellectual faculties within the body in materialistic theories of soul-body relation (Stoa/Pneumatismus)</a></li><li><a href='/project/d-2-4/'>(D-2-4) Reception and critique of materialist body-soul theories in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period</a></li><li><a href='/project/d-2-5/'>(D-2-5) Exhibition</a></li> </ul> <h3>Dissertations</h3> <ul class="project-lisings"> <li><a href='/project/d-2-1-1/'>(D-2-1-1) The antinoopolis medical papyri: A case study in late antique medicinence of Greek Papyri</a></li><li><a href='/project/d-2-1-6/'>(D-2-1-6) Galen, De locis affectis I-II: Critical Edition with Translation and Comments</a></li><li><a href='/project/d-2-2-1/'>(D-2-2-1) Mapping the role of Memory in Galen's oeuvre</a></li><li><a href='/project/d-2-4-1/'>(D-2-4-1) Immaterialität, Materialität, Intentionalität. Johannes Buridans Philosophie des Geistes</a></li> </ul></article> <aside id="conent-aside"> <h2>Spokesperson</h2><div><a href='/person/wittwer-roland/'>Roland Wittwer</a></div><h2>Members</h2><div><a href='/person/coughlin-sean/'>Sean Coughlin</a></div><div><a href='/person/kornmeier-uta/'>Uta Kornmeier</a></div><div><a href='/person/perler-dominik/'>Dominik Perler</a></div><div><a href='/person/schnalke-thomas/'>Thomas Schnalke</a></div><div><a href='/person/wittwer-roland/'>Roland Wittwer</a></div><div><a href='/person/van-der-eijk-philip/'>Philip van der Eijk</a></div><h2>Senior Fellows</h2><div><a href='/person/bos-gerrit/'>Gerrit Bos</a></div><div><a href='/person/gill-christopher/'>Christopher Gill</a></div><div><a href='/person/hattab-helen/'>Helen Hattab</a></div><div><a href='/person/rocca-julius/'>Julius Rocca</a></div><div><a href='/person/von-staden-heinrich/'>Heinrich von Staden</a></div><h2>Post-Doctoral Fellows</h2><div><a href='/person/bender-sebastian/'>Sebastian Bender</a></div><div><a href='/person/coughlin-sean/'>Sean Coughlin</a></div><div><a href='/person/klein-martin/'>Martin Klein</a></div><div><a href='/person/korobili-giouli/'>Georgia-Maria Korobili</a></div><div><a href='/person/lewis-orly/'>Orly Lewis </a></div><h2>Doctoral Fellows</h2><div><a href='/person/corazza-francesca/'>Francesca Corazza</a></div><div><a href='/person/gaertner-florian/'>Florian Gärtner</a></div><div><a href='/person/juliao-ricardo/'>Ricardo Julião</a></div><div><a href='/person/klein-martin/'>Martin Klein</a></div> </aside> </hgroup> </div> </div> </hgroup> </div> <footer id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div style="width:1000px; margin: 10px auto"> <nav id="access-footer" role="navigation"> <h3 class="assistive-text">Footer menu</h3> <div class="menu-footer-menu-container"><ul id="menu-footer-menu" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-14174" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-14174"><a href="/home/impressum/">Impressum</a></li> </ul></div> </nav> <div style="text-align: right;">There will be no updates to this website after October 31, 2019, as the Excellence Cluster comes to an end on that date.</div> </div> </footer> <script type="text/javascript"> function showhide_toggle(type, post_id, show_text, hide_text) { var $link = jQuery("#"+ type + "-link-" + post_id) , $link_a = jQuery('a', $link) , $content = jQuery("#"+ type + "-content-" + post_id) , $toggle = jQuery("#"+ type + "-toggle-" + post_id) , show_hide_class = 'sh-show sh-hide'; $link.toggleClass(show_hide_class); $content.toggleClass(show_hide_class).toggle(); if($link_a.attr('aria-expanded') === 'true') { $link_a.attr('aria-expanded', 'false'); } else { $link_a.attr('aria-expanded', 'true'); } if($toggle.text() === show_text) { $toggle.text(hide_text); } else { $toggle.text(show_text); } } </script> <link rel='stylesheet' id='metaslider-responsive-slider-css' href='/wp-content/plugins/ml-slider/assets/sliders/responsiveslides/responsiveslides.css' type='text/css' media='all' property='stylesheet' /> <link rel='stylesheet' id='metaslider-public-css' href='/wp-content/plugins/ml-slider/assets/metaslider/public.css' type='text/css' media='all' property='stylesheet' /> <script type='text/javascript' src='/wp-content/plugins/ml-slider/assets/sliders/responsiveslides/responsiveslides.min.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> var metaslider_44575 = function($) { $('#metaslider_44575').responsiveSlides({ timeout:6100, pager:false, nav:true, pause:true, speed:800, prevText:"<", nextText:">", auto:true }); }; var timer_metaslider_44575 = function() { var slider = !window.jQuery ? window.setTimeout(timer_metaslider_44575, 100) : !jQuery.isReady ? window.setTimeout(timer_metaslider_44575, 1) : metaslider_44575(window.jQuery); }; timer_metaslider_44575(); </script> </body> </html>