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In the Wake of the Compendia
Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia
E-bok, 2015
1865 kr
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In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia. This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at …
In the Wake of the Compendia
Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia
E-bok, 2015
1865 kr
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In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia. This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at …
In the Wake of the Compendia
Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia
Inbunden, 2015
1881 kr
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In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia.This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at …
Gastrointestinal Disease and Its Treatment in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Nineveh Treatise
Av J. Cale Johnson, Krisztián Simkó
Inbunden, 2024
3017 kr
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This volume contains the first comprehensive edition of the most important medical compendium on gastrointestinal ailments, bile-induced diseases, and fever from ancient Mesopotamia: the Stomach Treatise from Ashurbanipal’s royal library at Nineveh. Assembled three millennia ago from symptom …
Patients and Performative Identities
At the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and Their Clients
Inbunden, 2020
1374 kr
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The missing piece in so many histories of Mesopotamian technical disciplines is the client, who often goes unnoticed by present-day scholars seeking to reconstruct ancient disciplines in the Near East over millennia. The contributions to this volume investigate how Mesopotamian medical specialists …
Visualizing the invisible with the human body
Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world
Av J. Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru
Inbunden, 2019
1962 kr
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Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external …
