Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9781009389754 / Twarda / 2023 / 448 str.

Opis

Explores medieval pharmacology across all the relevant Mediterranean traditions, i.e. Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin.

Spis treści

Medieval mediterranean pharmacology Petros Bouras-Vallianatos; 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: AaLatin translation of an Arabic Manāfiʿ al-ḥayawān text on the pharmaceutical properties of animals Kathleen Walker-Meikle; 4. Arabic terms in Byzantine Materia Medica: oral and textual transmission Maria Mavroudi; 5. The theriac of medieval al-Shām Zohar Amar, Yaron Serri, and 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.