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Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros - Stathakopoulos, Dionysios (eds.), Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 448 pp.
- Resum
- In this volume a distinguished international team of scholars examines the history of drugs within all the major medical traditions of the medieval Mediterranean, namely Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin, and in so doing analyses a considerable number of previously unedited or barely explored texts. A Mediterranean-wide perspective permits a deeper understanding of broader phenomena such as the transfer of scientific knowledge and cultural exchange, by looking beyond single linguistic traditions or political boundaries. It also highlights the diversity and vitality of the medieval Mediterranean pharmacological tradition, which, through its close links with cookery, alchemy, magic, religion and philosophy, had to be able to adapt to multiple contexts, not least to changing social and political realities, as in the case of drugs as diplomatic gifts.
Contents:
* Medieval Mediterranean Pharmacology (2023), "Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros"
-- Part I. Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge: Texts and Contexts
* 1. Ibn al-Tilmīdh's Book on Simple Drugs: a Christian physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian nomenclature of plants and minerals / Fabian Käs
* 2. Drugs, provenance, and efficacy in early medieval Latin medical recipes / Jeffrey Doolittle
* 3. De sexaginta animalibus: A Latin translation of an Arabic Manāfiʿ al-ḥayawān text on the pharmaceutical properties of animals / Kathleen Walker-Meikle
* 4. Mavroudi (2023), "Arabic terms in Byzantine ..."
* 5. The theriac of medieval al-Shām / Zohar Amar, Yaron Serri, & Efraim Lev
* 6. 'Already Verified' – A Hebrew herbal between text and illustration / Sivan Gottlieb
-- Part II. The Borders of Pharmacology
* 7. Making magic happen: understanding drugs as therapeutic substances in later Byzantine sorcery and beyond / Richard Greenfield
* 8. Remedies or superstitions: Maimonides on Mishnah Shabbat 6:10 / Phillip I. Lieberman
* 9. When the doctor is not around: Arabic-Islamic self-treatment manuals as cultured people's guides to medico-pharmacological knowledge. The Mamluk period (1250–1517) / Paulina B. Lewicka
* 10. Digestive syrups and after dinner drinks – food or medicine? / Leigh Chipman
* 11. Late Byzantine alchemical recipe books: metallurgy, pharmacology, and cuisine / Matteo Martelli
* 12. Making connections between the medical properties of stones and philosophy in the work of Albertus Magnus / Athanasios Rinotas
* 13. Healing gifts: the role of diplomatic gift exchange in the movement of materia medica between the Byzantine and Islamicate worlds / Koray Durak
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
Fonts
Traduccions
Grec
Llatí
Àrab
Hebreu
Alquímia
Cuina i confiteria
Màgia - Màgia natural
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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