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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    October 2023
    November 2023
    ISBN:
    9781009389792
    9781009389754
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009389792
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.79kg, 446 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, History of Medicine
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    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, History of Medicine
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    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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    Honorable Mention, 2025 Best Edition/Translation - Mediterranean Seminar Book Prize, The Mediterranean Seminar

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    ‘An outstanding contribution to the study of medieval pharmacy and knowledge transfer within the wider Mediterranean world … Bouras-Vallianatos and Stathakopoulos have assembled a superb collection that will not only be of much interest to specialists, but that can also serve as a useful starting point for students and non-specialists looking for an entry into various aspects of drugs in the medieval Mediterranean.’

    Claire Burridge Source: Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean

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