Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean Through the Medieval West
by
Anne Van Arsdall - Timothy Graham
Brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy. This volume honors Professor John M Riddle, one of the most respected medieval historians, whose career has been devoted to decoding the complexities of early medicine and pharmacy.
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"Herbs and Healers, from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West" brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy. Fittingly, the volume honors Professor John M. Riddle, one of today's most respected medieval historians, whose career has been devoted to decoding the complexities of early medicine and pharmacy. "Herbs" in the title generally connotes drugs in ancient and medieval times; the essays here discuss interesting aspects of the challenges scholars face as they translate and interpret texts in several older languages. Some of the healers in the volume are named, such as Philotas of Amphissa, Gariopontus, and Constantine the African; many are anonymous and known only from their treatises on drugs and/or medicine. The volume's scope demonstrates the breadth of current research being undertaken in the field, examining both practical medical arts and medical theory from the ancient world into early modern times. It also includes a paper about a cutting-edge Internet-based system for ongoing academic collaboration.
The essays in this volume reveal insightful research approaches and highlight new discoveries that will be of interest to the international academic community of classicists, medievalists, and early-modernists because of the scarcity of publications objectively evaluating long-lived traditions that have their origin in the world of the ancient Mediterranean.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Ashgate Publishing Limited
City:
Aldershot
Pages:
320
More info:
height 234 mm
width 156 mm
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Age recommended:
College/higher education
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC23) 610.938
Library of Congress Subject: Medicine, Ancient
Departments:
History of medicine; Complementary medicine; Pharmacology;
Record updated at:
18 May, 2013
time:
00:50
Summary
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean Through the Medieval West
Introduction, Alain Touwaide; Pharmacology and toxicology at the court of Cleopatra VII: traces of three physicians, John Scarborough; Quid pro quo: revisiting the practice of substitution in ancient pharmacy, Alain Touwaide; Speaking in tongues: medical wisdom and glossing practices in and around Salerno, c.1040-1200, Florence Eliza Gaze; The ghost in the articella: a 12th-century commentary on the Constantian Liber Graduum, Faith Wallis; 'I will add what the Arab once taught': Constantine the African in Northern European medical verse, Winston Black; A problematic plant name: elehtre. A reconsideration, Maria Amalia D'Aronco; Herbs and herbal healing satirized in Middle English texts, Linda Ehrsam Voigts; 'Kurze versuochte dinge.' Ein mahrisch-schlesisches wundarztliches Rezeptar des 15. Jahrhunderts. Gundolf Keil; Saint John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) in the age of Paracelcus and the great herbals: assessing the historical claims for a traditional remedy, Karen Reeds; Revisiting Eve's herbs: reflections on therapeutic uncertainties, John K. Crellin; Modding medievalists: designing a web-based portal for the Medieval Plant Survey/ Portal der Pflanzen des Mittelalters (MPS/PPM), Helmut W. Klug and Roman Weinberger; The publications of John M. Riddle, 1964-2010 compiled by Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham; Indexes.
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