Collecting recipes: Byzantine and Jewish pharmacology in dialogue

STMAC aims to advance an inter-disciplinary and inclusive approach to the study of science in the ancientworld, ranging from mathematics and physics, medicine and magic to astronomy, astrology, and divination and covering the Mediterranean world, the Near (Middle) East, and Central and East Asia. Th...

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Main Author: Lehmhaus, Lennart (Author)
Contributors: Martelli, Matteo (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Boston De Gruyter 2016
In:Year: 2016
Reviews:[Rezension von: Collecting Recipes] (2019) (Tieleman, Teun)
Series/Journal:Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures v.4
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures Ser v.4
Further subjects:B Electronic books
B Pharmacology ; Byzantine empire
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Print version: Lehmhaus, Lennart: Collecting Recipes : Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue. - Boston : De Gruyter,c2016. - 9781501510779
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Summary:STMAC aims to advance an inter-disciplinary and inclusive approach to the study of science in the ancientworld, ranging from mathematics and physics, medicine and magic to astronomy, astrology, and divination and covering the Mediterranean world, the Near (Middle) East, and Central and East Asia. The series is open to different types of publications including monographs and edited volumes as well as text editions and commentaries
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Near-Eastern and Galenic Background -- Some Remarks on Babylonian Pharmacology -- Reconsidering the Term Dreckapotheke for the Ancient Near East -- Galen, Pharmacology and the Boundaries of Medicine: A Reassessment -- Part 2. Pharmacology in Motion: Byzantine and Jewish Traditions -- Aëtius' Extraction of Galenic Essence -- The Third Way -- Le ricette cosmetiche nelle enciclopedie mediche tardoantiche -- Paul d'Égine, Galien et l'aspic de Cléopâtre -- Continuity and Innovation in Paul of Aegina's Chapters on Headaches and Migraines -- Recipes Ascribed to the Scribe and Prophet Ezra in the Byzantine and Syriac Tradition -- Beyond Dreckapotheke, Between Facts and Feces: Talmudic Recipes and Therapies in Context -- Methodological Pitfalls in the Identification of the כוס עיקרין -- The Judaeo-Syriac Medical Fragment from the Cairo Genizah: A New Edition and Analysis -- La sistematizzazione della farmacologia a Bisanzio -- Index locorum -- Index nominum rerumque -- Index codicum
ISBN:1501502530