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Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West

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Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West

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Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West book

Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle

Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West

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Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West book

Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle
Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 2 May 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586601
Pages 394
eBook ISBN 9781315586601
Subjects Humanities
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Arsdall, A.V., & Graham, T. (Eds.). (2012). Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586601

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

ByAlain Touwaide

chapter 1|12 pages

Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Court of Cleopatra VII: Traces of Three Physicians

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham

chapter 2|44 pages

Quid pro Quo: Revisiting the Practice of Substitution in Ancient Pharmacy

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham

chapter 3|44 pages

Speaking in Tongues: Medical Wisdom and Glossing Practices in and around Salerno, c. 1040–1200

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham

chapter 4|46 pages

The Ghost in the Articella: A Twelfth-century Commentary on the Constantinian Liber Graduum

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham

chapter 5|34 pages

“I will add what the Arab once taught”: Constantine the African in Northern European Medical Verse

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham

chapter 6|30 pages

A Problematic Plant Name: elehtre. A Reconsideration

ByMaria Amalia D’Aronco

chapter 7|14 pages

Herbs and Herbal Healing Satirized in Middle English Texts

ByLinda Ehrsam Voigts

chapter 8|34 pages

“Kurze versuochte dinge.” Ein mährisch-schlesisches wundärztliches Rezeptar des 15. Jahrhunderts

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham

chapter 9|42 pages

Saint John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) in the Age of Paracelsus and the Great Herbals: Assessing the Historical Claims for a Traditional Remedy

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham

chapter 10|22 pages

Revisiting Eve’s Herbs: Reflections on Therapeutic Uncertainties

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham

chapter 11|30 pages

Modding Medievalists: Designing a Web-based Portal for the Medieval Plant Survey/Portal der Pflanzen des Mittelalters (MPS/PPM)

Edited ByAnne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham
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