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Medical Anthropology In The Late Middle Ages - Pietro Dabano On Body, Soul, And The Virtues

by Matthew Klemm

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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 nature. Peter was an influential physician and philosopher whose activities spanned from Paris to Padua to Constantinople, where he played a vital role in the appropriation of Greek and Arabic medical and natural philosophical sources in the Latin West. In his engagement with these sources, he sought a reconciliation (as his most famous work, the Conciliator, was titled) of medicine and philosophy. Through this reconciliation, Peter develops a rich description of the integration of physical and spiritual operations, and of physiological and mental capacities, leading him to discussions of imagination, moral virtues, and intellectual powers. Because Peter developed many of his ideas within a traditional medical framework, he created a distinctively medical anthropology. His unique understanding of human nature would remain influential for centuries to come.
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Plague In Byzantine Times - A Medico-Historical Study

by Costas Tsiamis

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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 a series of questions, mainly epidemiological in nature: the entry points and spreading of the disease in the Mediterranean, the epidemic dynamics as well as the evolution of the microbial agent of plague, i.e. Yersinia pestis. The present study offers a substantial explanation for the outbreaks of plague that struck Byzantium by exploring the multiple factors that caused or triggered epidemics. The study covers the entire period extending from the beginning of the Byzantine Empire until its fall in 1453, which was marked by two major pandemics, namely the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death. All known primary sources were collected and grouped from a spatiotemporal perspective, so as to retrace the unfolding of the two pandemics. The focus of the research shifts from known historical frameworks to ones of human activities, endemic foci and natural environment of the era as risk factors of the outbreaks.
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Galen On The Pulses - Medico-Historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation

by Ian Hugh Johnston e Niki Papavramidou

178,21€ + 10% CARD

 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 information on the views of others whose writings are lost. In the translated treatises in the present work, Galen deals with basic anatomy and physiology, classification of the types of pulses, diagnosis of and from the pulses, causal factors of clinical relevance and the very important matter of the prognostic value of the pulses. This is the first translation into a modern Western language of Galen''s very substantial body of work on this subject.
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Galen On The Pulses - Medico-Historical Analysis, Textual Tradition, Translation

by Ian Hugh Johnston e Niki Papavramidou

178,21€ + 10% CARD

 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 information on the views of others whose writings are lost. In the translated treatises in the present work, Galen deals with basic anatomy and physiology, classification of the types of pulses, diagnosis of and from the pulses, causal factors of clinical relevance and the very important matter of the prognostic value of the pulses. This is the first translation into a modern Western language of Galen''s very substantial body of work on this subject.
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Plague In Byzantine Times - A Medico-Historical Study

by Costas Tsiamis

128,53€ + 10% CARD

 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 a series of questions, mainly epidemiological in nature: the entry points and spreading of the disease in the Mediterranean, the epidemic dynamics as well as the evolution of the microbial agent of plague, i.e. Yersinia pestis. The present study offers a substantial explanation for the outbreaks of plague that struck Byzantium by exploring the multiple factors that caused or triggered epidemics. The study covers the entire period extending from the beginning of the Byzantine Empire until its fall in 1453, which was marked by two major pandemics, namely the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death. All known primary sources were collected and grouped from a spatiotemporal perspective, so as to retrace the unfolding of the two pandemics. The focus of the research shifts from known historical frameworks to ones of human activities, endemic foci and natural environment of the era as risk factors of the outbreaks.
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Peter Of Spain, Questiones Super Libro De Animalibus Aristotelis - Critical Edition With Introduction

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 This book presents an edition of the Questiones super libro â€™De Animalibusâ€™ Aristotelis, a work by one of the greatest philosophers and physicians of the 13th century, Peter of Spain. Preceding the critical edition, Navarro offers an introduction to Peter of Spain and a short analysis of the linguistics and form of the Questiones. She also analyses
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Medicine And Humanism In Late Medieval Italy - The Carrara Herbal In Padua

by Sarah R. Kyle

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 Francesco Novello, the last prince of Paduaâ€™s edition of Serapion the Youngerâ€™s herbal, known as the Carrara Herbal (BL Egerton 2020), attests to the growing influence of Arabic medicine both inside and outside the University. Its contents speak to the Carrara familyâ€™s historic role as patrons and protectors of the Studium. Yet, its form - as a
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Medicine And Pharmacy In Byzantine Hospitals - A Study Of The Extant Formularies

by David Bennett

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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 xenÃ´n texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in part rest. These texts, compiled broadly between the ninth and thirteenth centuries,
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A Census Of Greek Medical Manuscripts - From Byzantium To The Renaissance

by Alain Touwaide

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 Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists directed by Hermann Diels. However, Dielsâ€™ catalogue omitted authors and works, and misidentified manuscripts and, furthermore, since the publication of the catalogue, some libraries have adopted a new system of classificat
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Medicine And Humanism In Late Medieval Italy - The Carrara Herbal In Padua

by Sarah R. Kyle

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Francesco Novello, the last prince of Paduaâ€™s edition of Serapion the Youngerâ€™s herbal, known as the Carrara Herbal (BL Egerton 2020), attests to the growing influence of Arabic medicine both inside and outside the University. Its contents speak to the Carrara familyâ€™s historic role as patrons and protectors of the Studium.
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Herbs And Healers From The Ancient Mediterranean Through The Medieval West - Essays In Honor Of John M. Riddle

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 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 - Essays In Honor Of John M. Riddle

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 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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Health And Disease In Byzantine Crete (7th-12th Centuries Ad)

by Chryssi Bourbou

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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 author focuses on the interaction between physiology, culture and the environment in Byzantine populations from Crete in the 7th to 12th centuries.
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Health And Disease In Byzantine Crete (7th-12th Centuries Ad)

by Chryssi Bourbou

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 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 author focuses on the interaction between physiology, culture and the environment in Byzantine populations from Crete in the 7th to 12th centuries.
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Peter Of Spain, Questiones Super Libro De Animalibus Aristotelis - Critical Edition With Introduction

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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 around 1220 by Michael Scotus which included three important Aristotelian treatises. Preceding the critical edition, Dr Navarro offers an introduction to the person and works of Peter of Spain, the intellectual context of the 13th century characterized by Scholasticism and an Aristotelian Renaissance, and a short analysis of the linguistics and form of the Questiones. She also analyses the sources on which Peter drew, Greco-Latin, Arabo-Jewish and, of course, late antique and medieval treatises, showing that the text was not exclusively zoological in nature, but discusses important medical and philosophical topics, illustrating his extensive knowledge of both the Aristotelian corpus and 13th-century medicine. The text (divided into XIX books) is not a mere commentary about animals, but rather, as the title shows, a collection of questions in the Salernitan manner, the use of which was considered most appropriate for analysis and communication in the medieval scientific community to which Peter of Spain belonged. Alongside methodological and zoological problems, Peter of Spain discusses important questions disputed among the scholars of the period, including the location, hierarchy, motion, function and parts of the principal organs, the five senses, and many other medical issues such as reproduction, illnesses, or growth. Finally Dr Navarro includes a glossary that contains proper names (mainly those of the authorities and sources quoted by Petrus Hispanus), animal names (and their parts and substances), and the names of plants, metals, and the like.
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Peter Of Spain, Questiones Super Libro De Animalibus Aristotelis - Critical Edition With Introduction

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 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 around 1220 by Michael Scotus which included three important Aristotelian treatises. Preceding the critical edition, Dr Navarro offers an introduction to the person and works of Peter of Spain, the intellectual context of the 13th century characterized by Scholasticism and an Aristotelian Renaissance, and a short analysis of the linguistics and form of the Questiones. She also analyses the sources on which Peter drew, Greco-Latin, Arabo-Jewish and, of course, late antique and medieval treatises, showing that the text was not exclusively zoological in nature, but discusses important medical and philosophical topics, illustrating his extensive knowledge of both the Aristotelian corpus and 13th-century medicine. The text (divided into XIX books) is not a mere commentary about animals, but rather, as the title shows, a collection of questions in the Salernitan manner, the use of which was considered most appropriate for analysis and communication in the medieval scientific community to which Peter of Spain belonged. Alongside methodological and zoological problems, Peter of Spain discusses important questions disputed among the scholars of the period, including the location, hierarchy, motion, function and parts of the principal organs, the five senses, and many other medical issues such as reproduction, illnesses, or growth. Finally Dr Navarro includes a glossary that contains proper names (mainly those of the authorities and sources quoted by Petrus Hispanus), animal names (and their parts and substances), and the names of plants, metals, and the like.
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Galen, De Diebus Decretoriis, From Greek Into Arabic - A Critical Edition, With Translation And Commentary, Of Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Kitab Ayyam Al-Buhran

by Glen M. Cooper

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 This book presents the first edition, translation, and study of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of the Galenic treatise De diebus decretoriis (kitab ayyam al-buhran 'Concerning the Critical Days'). It makes available this key text on prognosis in medicine, and at the same time throws new light on the activities of perhaps the most important translator in 9th-century Baghdad.
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Galen, De Diebus Decretoriis, From Greek Into Arabic - A Critical Edition, With Translation And Commentary, Of Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Kitab Ayyam Al-Buhran

by Glen M. Cooper

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 This book presents the first edition, translation, and study of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of the Galenic treatise De diebus decretoriis (kitab ayyam al-buhran 'Concerning the Critical Days'). It makes available this key text on prognosis in medicine, and at the same time throws new light on the activities of perhaps the most important translator in 9th-century Baghdad.
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Medicine And Pharmacy In Byzantine Hospitals - A Study Of The Extant Formularies

by David Bennett

229,82€ + 10% CARD

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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 xenÃ´n texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in part rest.
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Galen, De Diebus Decretoriis, From Greek Into Arabic - A Critical Edition, With Translation And Commentary, Of Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Kitab Ayyam Al-Buhran

by Glen M. Cooper

81,10€ + 10% CARD

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 This book presents the first edition, translation, and study of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of the Galenic treatise De diebus decretoriis (kitab ayyam al-buhran 'Concerning the Critical Days'). It makes available this key text on prognosis in medicine, and at the same time throws new light on the activities of perhaps the most important translator in 9th-century Baghdad.
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Medicine And Humanism In Late Medieval Italy - The Carrara Herbal In Padua

by Sarah R. Kyle

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Francesco Novello, the last prince of Paduaâ€™s edition of Serapion the Youngerâ€™s herbal, known as the Carrara Herbal (BL Egerton 2020), attests to the growing influence of Arabic medicine both inside and outside the University. Its contents speak to the Carrara familyâ€™s historic role as patrons and protectors of the Studium.
ENGLISH

Census Of Greek Medical Manuscripts - From Byzantium To The Renaissance

by Alain Touwaide

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by authors and works at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists under the direction of Hermann Diels. Based on manuscripts, this book provides a broad historical inquiries, from codicology to the history of medicine and science, and more.
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Medicine And Pharmacy In Byzantine Hospitals - A Study Of The Extant Formularies

by David Bennett

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 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 xenÃ´n texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in part rest.
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Cretan Healer'S Handbook In The Byzantine Tradition - Text, Translation And Commentary

by Patricia Ann Clark

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 An English translation of a medical notebook belonging to a traditional healer from the village of Meronas in central Crete, Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis. It belongs to the genre of latrosophia: practical manuals of collected healing wisdom, dating mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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