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Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts
From Byzantium to the Renaissance
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by author and work at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists under the direction of Hermann Diels. Useful as it was - and will continue to be – Diels’ catalogue omitted authors and works, misidentified manuscripts, …
Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals
A study of the extant formularies
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital. In this study is the first systematic examination of the evidence of the xenôn texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in part rest. These texts, compiled …
Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy
The Carrara Herbal in Padua
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged. The manuscript contains an illustrated, vernacular copy of the …
Peter of Spain, Questiones super libro De Animalibus Aristotelis
Critical Edition with Introduction
Häftad, 2019
805 kr
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This book presents an edition of the Questiones super libro De Animalibus Aristotelis, a work by one of the greatest philosophers and physicians of the 13th century, Peter of Spain (later Pope John XXI, 1205-1277). He took as the basis for his work the translation from the Arabic made in Toledo …
Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic
A Critical Edition, with Translation and Commentary, of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Kitab ayyam al-buhran
Inbunden, 2011
2818 kr
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This volume presents the first edition of the Arabic translation, by Hunayn ibn Ishaq, of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), together with the first translation of the text into a modern language. The substantial introduction contextualizes the treatise within the Greek and Arabic …
Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition
Text, Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the …
Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th–12th centuries AD)
Inbunden, 2010
2578 kr
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Daily life and living conditions in the Byzantine world are relatively underexplored subjects, often neglected in comparison with more visible aspects of Byzantine culture, such as works of art. The book is among the few publications on Greek Byzantine populations and helps pioneer a new approach …
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West
Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle
Av Anne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham
Häftad, 2017
919 kr
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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 …
Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic
A Critical Edition, with Translation and Commentary, of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Kitab ayyam al-buhran
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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This volume presents the first edition of the Arabic translation, by Hunayn ibn Ishaq, of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), together with the first translation of the text into a modern language. The substantial introduction contextualizes the treatise within the Greek and Arabic …
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West
Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle
Av Anne Van Arsdall, Timothy Graham
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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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 …
Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts
From Byzantium to the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2016
2818 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by author and work at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists under the direction of Hermann Diels. Useful as it was - and will continue to be – Diels’ catalogue omitted authors and works, misidentified manuscripts, …
Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals
A study of the extant formularies
Inbunden, 2016
2818 kr
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Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital. In this study is the first systematic examination of the evidence of the xenôn texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in part rest. These texts, compiled …
Peter of Spain, Questiones super libro De Animalibus Aristotelis
Critical Edition with Introduction
Inbunden, 2015
2736 kr
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This book presents an edition of the Questiones super libro De Animalibus Aristotelis, a work by one of the greatest philosophers and physicians of the 13th century, Peter of Spain (later Pope John XXI, 1205-1277). He took as the basis for his work the translation from the Arabic made in Toledo …
Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy
The Carrara Herbal in Padua
Inbunden, 2016
2818 kr
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This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged. The manuscript contains an illustrated, vernacular copy of the …
Plague in Byzantine Times
A Medico-historical Study
Inbunden, 2022
1338 kr
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The lack of reliable demographic data for Byzantine cities raises questions as to the actual rate of expansion and mortality of plague. This essentially leads to the question of change and progress of the nature of infectious diseases in that period. Also, the analysis of the written sources raised …
Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages
Pietro d’Abano on Body, Soul, and the Virtues
Inbunden, 2024
1868 kr
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This book considers the introduction of materialist and physiological reasoning into late medieval discourse on the soul in the work of Peter of Abano (d.1316); in this, it adds a vital component to our understanding of this important period in the history of medicine and of the philosophy of human …
Galen on the Pulses
Medico-historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation
Av Ian Hugh Johnston, Niki Papavramidou
Inbunden, 2023
1920 kr
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The arterial pulse was a major aspect of all three major medical traditions - Western, Chinese and Indian. Galen's extant works are the only significant account of Western views surviving from ancient times. Not only does he set out his own views in great detail but he also gives a large amount of …
Galen on Movement Disorders
A Critical Edition of ›De tremore‹, with English Translation and Commentary
Av Sara Agnelli
Inbunden, 2027
1624 kr
Kommande
In De tremore, rigore, palpitatione, et convulsione liber, a forgotten work preserved in ten Greek manuscripts and in some medieval translations into Latin, Galen described four types of abnormal involuntary movements: tremor, rigor, palpitation, and spasm. De tremore provides the first detailed …
Medieval Medicinal Plants
Texts, Identification, Cultivation
Inbunden, 2027
2005 kr
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The current interest in medieval medicinal plants is hampered by the lack of easily accessible texts and the uncertainty in the identification of the plants. This book aims to compensate for these shortcomings. If seeking beyond Culpeper’s Herbal (1653), authors frequently use Renaissance authors, …
Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature
The Kitāb al-Malakī and Related Texts
Av Anna Gili
Inbunden, 2025
1370 kr
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Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases. However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly understood, and a wider interpretation of it as a historical phenomenon is yet to be proposed. …
