Catalin-Stefan Popa, Ph.D. (2016) Georg August University of Göttingen, Habilitation (2021), Karl Franzens University of Graz, is Research Professor at the Romanian Academy. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles, including The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2023). He is editor-in-chief and founder of The Syriac Annals of Romanian Academy (SARA).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCatalin-Stefan Popa1 The Contemplative as Spiritual Physician: Medical Theory and Terminology in the Writings of Evagrius PonticusLuke Dysinger2 Illness, Sainthood, and Spiritual Healing in Early Antique MonasticismDaniel Lemeni3 Illness of Body and Soul in Greek-Speaking Church FathersMartin Meiser4 Survivals of Phoenician and Aramaic Pharmacobotany during Late AntiquityDaniel Asade5 Zoroastrian Medical Rhetoric in Late Antique IranMahnaz Moazami6 Physician, Spiritual Healer, or Medicine Man? Medical Science according to Bar BahlūlStefanie Rudolf7 Spiritual Therapy of the Heart: Syriac Fathers on a Pure Heart and How to Keep It Free of DiseaseCatalin-Stefan Popa8 Disease and Healing according to the Armenian Christian TraditionJesse Siragan Arlen9 Soul and Body: Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Georgian HagiographyGaga Shurgaia10 Haunted Bodies: Health, Illness and Inner Life in ByzantiumRaffaele Guerra11 Non-Codex Gəʿəz Manuscripts as Forms of HealingHagos Abrha Abay12 A Sixteenth Century Hebrew Account of the Epidemic in NaplesNadia Zeldes13 Medical and Pharmacological Remedies with Qurʾanic Verses in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts from TimbuktuAli Diakite and Paul Naylor14 ‘Let Us Bear Illness with Dignity and Righteousness’Physical and Spiritual Affliction in the Understanding of the Elders of OptinaEugene Lyutko, Gleb Zapalsky and Vyacheslav YachmenikIndex of SubjectsIndex of NamesIndex of Places

Catalin-Stefan Popa, Ph.D. (2016) Georg August University of Göttingen, Habilitation (2021), Karl Franzens University of Graz, is Research Professor at the Romanian Academy. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles, including The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2023). He is editor-in-chief and founder of The Syriac Annals of Romanian Academy (SARA).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCatalin-Stefan Popa1 The Contemplative as Spiritual Physician: Medical Theory and Terminology in the Writings of Evagrius PonticusLuke Dysinger2 Illness, Sainthood, and Spiritual Healing in Early Antique MonasticismDaniel Lemeni3 Illness of Body and Soul in Greek-Speaking Church FathersMartin Meiser4 Survivals of Phoenician and Aramaic Pharmacobotany during Late AntiquityDaniel Asade5 Zoroastrian Medical Rhetoric in Late Antique IranMahnaz Moazami6 Physician, Spiritual Healer, or Medicine Man? Medical Science according to Bar BahlūlStefanie Rudolf7 Spiritual Therapy of the Heart: Syriac Fathers on a Pure Heart and How to Keep It Free of DiseaseCatalin-Stefan Popa8 Disease and Healing according to the Armenian Christian TraditionJesse Siragan Arlen9 Soul and Body: Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Georgian HagiographyGaga Shurgaia10 Haunted Bodies: Health, Illness and Inner Life in ByzantiumRaffaele Guerra11 Non-Codex Gəʿəz Manuscripts as Forms of HealingHagos Abrha Abay12 A Sixteenth Century Hebrew Account of the Epidemic in NaplesNadia Zeldes13 Medical and Pharmacological Remedies with Qurʾanic Verses in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts from TimbuktuAli Diakite and Paul Naylor14 ‘Let Us Bear Illness with Dignity and Righteousness’Physical and Spiritual Affliction in the Understanding of the Elders of OptinaEugene Lyutko, Gleb Zapalsky and Vyacheslav YachmenikIndex of SubjectsIndex of NamesIndex of Places

Catalin-Stefan Popa, Ph.D. (2016) Georg August University of Göttingen, Habilitation (2021), Karl Franzens University of Graz, is Research Professor at the Romanian Academy. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles, including The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2023). He is editor-in-chief and founder of The Syriac Annals of Romanian Academy (SARA).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCatalin-Stefan Popa1 The Contemplative as Spiritual Physician: Medical Theory and Terminology in the Writings of Evagrius PonticusLuke Dysinger2 Illness, Sainthood, and Spiritual Healing in Early Antique MonasticismDaniel Lemeni3 Illness of Body and Soul in Greek-Speaking Church FathersMartin Meiser4 Survivals of Phoenician and Aramaic Pharmacobotany during Late AntiquityDaniel Asade5 Zoroastrian Medical Rhetoric in Late Antique IranMahnaz Moazami6 Physician, Spiritual Healer, or Medicine Man? Medical Science according to Bar BahlūlStefanie Rudolf7 Spiritual Therapy of the Heart: Syriac Fathers on a Pure Heart and How to Keep It Free of DiseaseCatalin-Stefan Popa8 Disease and Healing according to the Armenian Christian TraditionJesse Siragan Arlen9 Soul and Body: Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Georgian HagiographyGaga Shurgaia10 Haunted Bodies: Health, Illness and Inner Life in ByzantiumRaffaele Guerra11 Non-Codex Gəʿəz Manuscripts as Forms of HealingHagos Abrha Abay12 A Sixteenth Century Hebrew Account of the Epidemic in NaplesNadia Zeldes13 Medical and Pharmacological Remedies with Qurʾanic Verses in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts from TimbuktuAli Diakite and Paul Naylor14 ‘Let Us Bear Illness with Dignity and Righteousness’Physical and Spiritual Affliction in the Understanding of the Elders of OptinaEugene Lyutko, Gleb Zapalsky and Vyacheslav YachmenikIndex of SubjectsIndex of NamesIndex of Places