Il senso medico di pestilentia in Agostino
In this contribution, an analysis of the term pestilentia in Augustine’s works is developed. First, all the textual places where the term recurs are listed, specifying the type of meaning it has. A distinction is made between a proper sense, of a medical kind, and a metaphorical sense, of a moral ki...
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| description | In this contribution, an analysis of the term pestilentia in Augustine’s works is developed. First, all the textual places where the term recurs are listed, specifying the type of meaning it has. A distinction is made between a proper sense, of a medical kind, and a metaphorical sense, of a moral kind. Secondly, the passages where the word pestilentia is used in a clearly medical sense are examined in detail. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1709142026-01-12T20:15:45Z Il senso medico di pestilentia in Agostino Catapano, Giovanni Augustine epidemic pandemic pestilence plague thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science In this contribution, an analysis of the term pestilentia in Augustine’s works is developed. First, all the textual places where the term recurs are listed, specifying the type of meaning it has. A distinction is made between a proper sense, of a medical kind, and a metaphorical sense, of a moral kind. Secondly, the passages where the word pestilentia is used in a clearly medical sense are examined in detail. Published 2026-01-12T20:15:42Z 2026-01-12T20:15:42Z 2024-12-12 chapter 9788875903183 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170914 ita Quaderni di Noctua image/jpeg application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua7-1 https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua7-1 E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni Medical and Philosophical Perspectives on Illness and Disease in the Middle Ages E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni, Università degli Studi di Torino 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua7-1 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua7-1 9c743178-7a11-43f5-9c4d-07b93e99f80f 06e34257-d26f-4a71-955c-9459468137d7 9788875903183 E-theca OnLineOpenAccess Edizioni, Università degli Studi di Torino 7 1-26 Florence, Parma, Turin open access |
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| title_short | Il senso medico di pestilentia in Agostino |
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