Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 377 pages)
ISBN:
9781315586601
,
9781317122517
,
9781317122524
Series Statement:
Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean
Content:
1. Pharmacology and toxicology at the court of Cleopatra VII : traces of three physicians / John Scarborough -- 2. Quid pro quo : revisiting the practice of substitution in ancient pharmacy / Alain Touwaide -- 3. Speaking in tongues : medical wisdom and glossing practices in and around Salerno, c. 1040-1200 / Florence Eliza Glaze -- 4. The ghost in the Articella : a twelfth-century commentary on the Constantinian Liber Graduum / Faith Wallis -- 5. "I will add what the Arab once taught" : Constantine the African in Northern European medical verse / Winston Black -- 6. A problematic plant name : elehtre. A reconsideration / Maria Amalia D'Aronco -- 7. Herbs and herbal healing satirized in Middle English texts / Linda Ehrsam Voigts -- 8. "Kurze versuochte dinge." Ein mahrisch-schlesisches wundarztliches Rezeptar des 15. Jahrhunderts / Gundolf Keil -- 9. Saint John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) in the age of Paracelsus and the great herbals : assessing the historical claims for a traditional remedy / Karen Reeds -- 10. Revisiting Eve's herbs : reflections on therapeutic uncertainties / John K. Crellin -- 11. Modding medievalists : designing a web-based portal for the medieval plant survey/Portal der Pflanzen des Mittelalters (MPS/PPM) / Helmut W. Klug and Roman Weinberger.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409400387
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138115958
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409400387
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315586601
