Amirdovlad Amasiatsi activity in Plovdiv in the context of some trends in the Bulgarian lands during XV–XVII century Cover Image
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Дейността на Амирдовлад Амасиаци в Пловдив в контекста на някои тенденции в българските земи през периода XV–XVII в.
Amirdovlad Amasiatsi activity in Plovdiv in the context of some trends in the Bulgarian lands during XV–XVII century

Author(s): Slavka Toshkova-Hristozova
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Special Historiographies:, Health and medicine and law, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Балканска асоциация по история и философия на медицината (БАИФМ)

Summary/Abstract: Subject of research is the activity of Amirdovlad Amasiatsi in Plovdiv. He is among encyclopedic figures in the Ottoman Empire during the in its expansion in the Balkans in the XV century. Its activity is reflected in official documents and original medical works. The new read activities of Amasiatsi aims not only to promote a medieval physician and pharmacologist working in the Bulgarian lands, but whose works reveal scientific and cultural trends imposed during XV – XVII century. The activity of Amasiatsi consider three aspects that represent three separate research tasks – the role of Amasiatsi as a physician and scientist in the specific historical conditions in the Balkans, focusing on its activities in the region of Plovdiv and placing this work in the context of trends imposed in called. «Dark ages» – the destruction of the Christian intelligentsia, the collapse of education and scientific knowledge depersonalization of culture. Positive trends are striving to defend the faith, creation of literature in spoken language, care for the education of students – future healers and pharmacologists. In this sense, what Amasiatsi in Plovdiv is an expression of moral, ethical and human values inherent in the spirit of the Hippocratic medicine scientific medical school in Constantinople.

  • Issue Year: XI/2016
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 344-350
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian