Professor Vivian Nutton FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2008
- Subjects
- Classics, History
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
- Website
- http://nutton.org.uk/
Summary
Vivian Nutton is a historian of medicine who has written extensively on from the ancient Greeks to the 17th century, especially Galen (129-216 C.E.) and the Galenic tradition. As well as his book on medicine in Classical Antiquity, he has published editions and translations of Latin and Greek texts from Antiquity and the Renaissance. His recent work has centred on the Renaissance anatomist, Andreas Vesalius, and included studies of two major sets of unpublished annotations prepared by Vesalius for revised versions of his most important works.
Current Post
University College London Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine
Past appointments
University College London Professor of the History of Medicine
1993 - 2009
University College London Senior Lecturer
1977 - 1993
Selwyn College, University of Cambridge Director of Studies in Classics; Fellow
1969 - 1977
Selwyn College University of Cambridge Research Fellow
1967 - 1969
Publications
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Professor Ineke Sluiter FBA
Classics, in particular: ancient and medieval ideas on language; the use of value terms in public debate; cognitive approaches to Greek literature; innovation processes in antiquity, in particular their 'anchoring'
Professor Phiroze Vasunia FBA
Greek and Latin literature; the classical tradition; comparative literature; colonialism.
Professor Robert A Kaster FBA
Robert A Kaster has taught and written primarily in the areas of Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education, Latin textual criticism, and Roman ethics and the history of the emotions.
