Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean Bouras-Vallianatos Stathakopoulos Hardback

Drugs in the Medieval MediterraneanTransmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge\nAuthor(s): Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Dionysios Stathakopoulos\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009389754, 978-1009389754\nSynopsis\nIn 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,.