Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge

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Medieval Mediterranean Pharmacology
Part I Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge: Texts and Contexts
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1 Ibn al-Tilmīdh’s Book on Simple Drugs: A Christian Physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian Nomenclature of Plants and Minerals
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2 Drugs, Provenance, and Efficacy in Early Medieval Latin Medical Recipes
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3 De sexaginta animalibus:  A Latin Translation of an Arabic Manāfiʿ al-ḥayawān Text on the Pharmaceutical Properties of Animals
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4 Arabic Terms in Byzantine Materia Medica: Oral and Textual Transmission
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5 The Theriac of Medieval al-Shām
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6 ‘Already Verified’: A Hebrew Herbal between Text and Illustration
Part II The Borders of Pharmacology
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7 Making Magic Happen: Understanding Drugs As Therapeutic Substances in Later Byzantine Sorcery and Beyond
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8 Remedies or Superstitions: Maimonides on Mishnah Shabbat 6:10
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9 When the Doctor Is Not Around: Arabic-Islamic Self-Treatment Manuals As Cultured People’s Guides to Medico-pharmacological Knowledge. The Mamluk Period (1250–1517)
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10 Digestive Syrups and After-Dinner Drinks: Food or Medicine?
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11 Late Byzantine Alchemical Recipe Books: Metallurgy, Pharmacology, and Cuisine
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12 Making Connections between the Medical Properties of Stones and Philosophy in the Work of Albertus Magnus
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13 Healing Gifts: The Role of Diplomatic Gift Exchange in the Movement of Materia Medica between the Byzantine and Islamicate Worlds
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