Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean - Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge

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.

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• Authors: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (National and Kapodistr Bouras-Vallianatos
• Assisted by: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (Editor), Dionysios Stathakopoulos (Editor), Stathakopoulos Dionysios (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009389754
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0938975-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Mediterranean countries, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, c 500 BCE to c 1500 CE (Italian ancient and medieval period)