Constantine the African and ‘Alī Ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağūsī
Constantine the African and ‘Alī Ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağūsī

Author: Danielle Jacquart

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 9004377352

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When the tenth-century Kāmil as-sinā‘a (or al-Kitāb al-malakī) of ‘Alī ibn al-‘Abbās al-Mağūsī was adapted for a Latin-reading audience by Constantine the African in the late eleventh century, the medieval West had, for the first time, the opportunity to use a text which covered the whole of medicine. But the 100-odd extant manuscripts suggest that Contantine's Pantegni was put together over a considerable period of time, and chapters from other Latin and newly-translated Arabic medical works were added to or substituted those of the Kāmil. This book is the first to be devoted to Constantine the African: it sheds light on the School of Salerno and the formation of a medical corpus in the High Middle Ages.

Constantine the African and ʻAlī Ibn Al-ʻAbbās Al-Maǧūsī
Constantine the African and ʻAlī Ibn Al-ʻAbbās Al-Maǧūsī

Author: Charles S. F. Burnett

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9789004100145

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This book explores how, in the late eleventh century, an Arabic medical compendium was adapted for a Latin-reading audience by Constantine the African and his South Italian colleagues, thus revolutionizing the standard and sophistication of Western medicine.

Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times
Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times

Author: Tanja Pommerening

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 3110537273

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The volume presents phenomena of classification and categorisation in ancient and modern cultures and provides an overview of how cultural practices and cognitive systems interact when individuals or larger groups conceptually organize their world. Scientists of antiquity studies, anthropologists, linguists etc. will find methods to reconstruct early concepts of men and nature from a synchronic and diachronic comparative perspective.

Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge
Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge

Author: Geneviève Dumas

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 9004282440

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This book examines the social, institutional and cultural setting of medical practices in the medieval town of Montpellier which boasted one of the first universities of the middle ages and a famous school of medicine. Some of its most celebrated masters and their medical works have been thoroughly studied but few of them try to put these in context with a thriving urban community of merchants and craftsmen that were at the core of the city council. Their concurrent efforts will endow Montpellier of a rich health care system featuring not only the university masters but also the city’s barber-surgeons and apothecaries. Their collective fate is revealed here in an integrated picture of health and society in the middle ages.

Medieval Perceptual Puzzles
Medieval Perceptual Puzzles

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 9004413030

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In our daily lives, we are surrounded by all sorts of things – such as trees, cars, persons, or madeleines – and perception allows us access to them. But what does ‘to perceive’ actually mean? What is it that we perceive? How do we perceive? Do we perceive the same way animals do? Does reason play a role in perception? Such questions occur naturally today. But was it the same in the past, centuries ago? The collected volume tackles this issue by turning to the Latin philosophy of the 13th and 14th centuries. Did medieval thinkers raise the same, or similar, questions as we do with respect to perception? What answers did they provide? What arguments did they make for raising the questions they did, and for the answers they gave to them? The philosophers taken into consideration are, among others, Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, John Pecham, Richard Rufus, Peter Olivi, Robert Kilwardby, John Buridan, and Jean of Jandun. Contributors are Elena Băltuță, Daniel De Haan, Martin Klein, Andrew LaZella, Lukáš Lička, Mattia Mantovani, André Martin, Dominik Perler, Paolo Rubini, José Filipe Silva, Juhana Toivanen, and Rega Wood.

Mamluks and Animals
Mamluks and Animals

Author: Housni Alkhateeb Shehada

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-05

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9004234225

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Housni Alkhateeb Shehada's Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam is the first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and its patients in the medieval Islamic world, with special emphasis on the Mamluk period (1250-1517). Based on a large variety of sources, it is a history of a scientific field that is also examined from social and cultural perspectives. Horses, as well as birds of prey used for hawking and falconry, were at the centre of the veterinary literature of that period, but the treatment and cure of other animals was not totally neglected. The Mamluk period is presented here as the time when veterinary medicine reached its pinnacle in medieval Islam and often even surpassed human medicine.

Souls under Siege
Souls under Siege

Author: Nicole Archambeau

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1501753681

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In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual sicknesses caused by excessive sin, and they sought cures in confession. Archambeau draws on a rich evidentiary base of sixty-eight narrative testimonials from the canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel, which was held in the market town of Apt in 1363. Each witness in the proceedings had lived through the outbreaks of plague in 1348 and 1361, as well as the violence inflicted by mercenaries unemployed during truces in the Hundred Years' War. Consequently, their testimonies unexpectedly reveal the importance of faith and the role of affect in the healing of body and soul alike. Faced with an unprecedented cascade of crises, the inhabitants of Provence relied on saints and healers, their worldview connecting earthly disease and disaster to the struggle for their eternal souls. Souls under Siege illustrates how medieval people approached sickness and uncertainty by using a variety of remedies, making clear that "healing" had multiple overlapping meanings in this historical moment.