At the Origins of Women’s Herbal Skills: From Myth to the Medical Treatises of Antiquity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Contents VII
4. Notes on Contributors XIX
5. Introduction 1
6. List of Publications by Alain Touwaide 15
7. Introduction: Reflections on Alain Touwaide 55
8. Part I: Dioscorides
9. Dioscorides, Anazarbos, and the Epigraphic Evidence 61
10. Parallel Worlds: Ancient Mesopotamian Medicinal Plant Knowledge and Dioscorides’ De materia medica 79
11. Secundum Dyascoridem: Ce que la vénénologie du Moyen Âge latin doit vraiment à Dioscoride 109
12. Part II: Botany
13. Some Trees of Greece 129
14. John Sibthorp’s Eastern Mediterranean Fieldwork, Ethnobotany, and Botanical Teaching 143
15. At the Origins of Women’s Herbal Skills: From Myth to the Medical Treatises of Antiquity 175
16. Part III: Gardens
17. The Hippocratic Herbal at the Botanical Hippocratic Garden of Kos 193
18. Botany and the Art of Topia: Archeological Evidence from the Villa Arianna at Stabiae 211
19. Il Giardino della Minerva: dalla storia alla rinascita 251
20. Part IV: Representing Plants
21. On the Color of Flowering Plants Depicted in Flora graeca Sibthorpiana 258
22. In Search of the Lost Archetype? An Alternative Reading of the Illustrations Provided in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius 297
23. The Metamorphoses of the Roccabonella Herbal: A Study of Its Afterlives in Collenuccio’s Pliniana defensio and Giovanni da Udine’s Painted Garlands in the Loggia di Psiche 313
24. Part V: Medicinal Plants
25. Coriander in Archeology, Ancient Medical Literature, and Current Biomolecular Therapeutics 347
26. Apuntes para una historia provisional e incompleta de la mandrágora (Mandragora spp.) en la tradición mágica árabo-islámica (siglos X–XVII) 433
27. Herbal Ingredients of Liquid Preparations in Nikolaos Myrepsos’s Dynameron 461
28. Part VI: Plant Therapies
29. Ξηροφθαλμία: Dry Eye Disorder in Greek and Latin Medical Sources 501
30. “What Is This Herb”? 533
31. Plantes répellantes de manuscrits : le cas du Yémen 547
32. Part VII: More Materia medica
33. The Magi and the Crocodile 567
34. Wild Allium: Apotropaic Magic, Monastic Medicine: Cultural, Ecological, and Phytotherapeutic Importance 579
35. Plant Cures in Late Twentieth-Century Nicosia, Cyprus 599
36. Part VIII: Circulation of Plants and Knowledge
37. Storax(es) of the Middle Ages: Confusion over a Medicinal Resin in Islamic Pharmacology 609
38. Colóquios dos Simples de Garcia de Orta: Notícias sobre as drogas e especiarias da Ásia na Europa de Quinhentos 635
39. Plants and Manifest Destiny: U.S. Botanists and the ‘Cinchona Missions’ in Latin America (1942–1945) 663
40. Part IX: Ethnopharmacology
41. Dioscorides in the Caucasus: Medicinal Plants and Fungi of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus 681
42. The Traditional Moroccan Pharmacopeia Between Scholarly Medical Sources and Cultural Specificities 709
43. Agreement and Meaning: Rethinking Consensus Analysis 747
44. Indexes
45. Introduction 773
46. Manuscripts and Texts
47. Plants and Botany
48. Remedies
49. General Indexes