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Tome 1: Manuscripts. ›Codices‹, Texts, Science and Medicine
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Edited by:
Steven M. Oberhelman
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English, French, Italian
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2025
About this book
This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies. The essays, penned by 80 international scholars and researchers and written in six languages, are grouped into three broad categories—Manuscripts, Plants, and Remedies—to reflect Alain’s main areas of research. Each category is broken into subgroups, such as manuscripts, texts, and science; botany; gardens, materia medica, pharmacy, drugs, archaeology, medical traditions, and continuity of scientific knowledge in the East and West. The papers reach across many fields of scholarship, science, and medicine and are, necessarily and fundamentally, trans-disciplinary, trans-chronological, and trans-geographic. These volumes are not so much a Festschrift as an approach to Alain’s work through many disciplines and methods, a discussion of the current status of each field, and an opening into new perspectives.
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Steven M. Oberhelman, Texas A&M University, USA.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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List of Figures and Illustrations
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction
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List of Publications by Alain Touwaide
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Introduction: Reflections on Alain Touwaide
53 - 1 Byzantium
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Sur l’origine et la première circulation du manuscrit de Metrodora (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Laur. Plut. 75.3)
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Ein Rezept für Alexios Apokaukos im Kodex Vallicellianus E 55, f. 131 verso: Edition und Kontextualisierung (mit 4 Abbildungen)
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Los remedios médicos de Tomás Magistro conservados en el Vat. Urb. gr. 67
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Kampf der Kulturen oder Wissenstransfer: Überlegungen zur Überlieferung der antiken Medizin im Mittelalter
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Materia medica in Early Medieval England
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Manfredus de Monte Imperiali, Tractatus de herbis: Preliminary Notes on Its Manuscript Tradition
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The Bewitching of Old English Medical Texts
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A Note on Nicander’s Alexipharmaca 449 and Virgil’s Origin of the Bugonia
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To the Ailing Traveler: A Pliny-Inspired Late Antique First Aid Handbook
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Niccolò da Reggio, De tiriaca ad Pamphilum: edizione critica
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Nature, Art, and Geometry in Greece
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Accuracy in Measurements of Astronomy and Time in France during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Ὄφεις παράλογοι: Civil Serpents and Their Uncanny Cousins
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Sennert, d’Espagnet, and van Helmont in Greek: Three Handwritten Chymical Treatises before the Advent of Newtonianism
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Hippocrates’ Intuition on the Renal Tubule’s Role in Ion Exchange
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Alexander the Great’s Lost Mummy: An Archeo-Anthropological Perspective and Review
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Exhibiting Ourselves: On Museums, Bones, and Ethical Issues
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What Is Clear and More Knowable: Hierarchies of the Senses and Scientific Method in Aristotelian Exegetical Tradition (John Philoponus, 6<sup>th</sup> century CE)
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The Concept and Correspondences of Flavor in Ancient Medical Systems
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Sur les phénomènes aux causes inconnues, Kitāb al-Ḫawaṣṣ de Rāzī : Edition du texte arabe, traduction et analyse
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Rudolf Kobert, A Forgotten Pioneer of Ethnopharmacology
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Ancient Mediterranean Plants and Pharmaceutical Sciences: Friedrich August Flückiger, Alexander Tschirch, and Pharmacognosy around 1900
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Pharmacology, Folklore, and Religion: David Macht and the Search for a Menotoxin
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Contents of Index
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Introduction
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Manuscripts and Texts
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History, Philosophy, Epistemology
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Sciences, Medicine, and Pharmacotherapeutics
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Scholars
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General Index
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eBook published on:
August 14, 2025
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August 14, 2025
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9783110776157
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Front matter:
16
Main content:
662
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4
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29
Tables:
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Audience(s) for this book
Students and scholars of Classics, Medicine and Pharmacology
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