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Tome 2: Plants. Botany, Gardens, ›Materia medica‹, Ethnopharmacology

  • Edited by: Steven M. Oberhelman
Part of the multi-volume work
Medical Traditions
Manuscripts, Plants, Remedies in the Mediterranean Traditions: Studies across Disciplines for Alain Touwaide
Languages: English, French, Italian
Published/Copyright: 2025
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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

    I
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    Acknowledgments

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    Contents

    VII
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    Notes on Contributors

    XIX
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    Introduction

    1
    Steven M. Oberhelman
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    List of Publications by Alain Touwaide

    15
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    Introduction: Reflections on Alain Touwaide

    55
    Nancy J. Turner
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  • Part I: Dioscorides
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    Dioscorides, Anazarbos, and the Epigraphic Evidence

    61
    Mustafa H. Sayar
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    Parallel Worlds: Ancient Mesopotamian Medicinal Plant Knowledge and Dioscorides’ De materia medica

    79
    Barbara Böck
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    Secundum Dyascoridem: Ce que la vénénologie du Moyen Âge latin doit vraiment à Dioscoride

    109
    Franck Collard
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  • Part II: Botany
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    Some Trees of Greece

    129
    Arne Strid
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    John Sibthorp’s Eastern Mediterranean Fieldwork, Ethnobotany, and Botanical Teaching

    143
    Stephen A. Harris
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    At the Origins of Women’s Herbal Skills: From Myth to the Medical Treatises of Antiquity

    175
    Marco Cilione and Valentina Gazzaniga
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  • Part III: Gardens
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    The Hippocratic Herbal at the Botanical Hippocratic Garden of Kos

    193
    Stefanos Geroulanos, Epameinondas Evergetis and Nikolaos Papantoniou
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    Botany and the Art of Topia: Archeological Evidence from the Villa Arianna at Stabiae

    211
    Amina-Aïcha Malek and Kathryn Gleason
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    Il Giardino della Minerva: dalla storia alla rinascita

    251
    Luciano Mauro
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  • Part IV: Representing Plants
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    On the Color of Flowering Plants Depicted in Flora graeca Sibthorpiana

    258
    Sophie Rhizopoulou, Dimitra-Thomais Tsekoura, Anastasia Fragkiadaki, Ivi-Evangelia Kassimati, Athanasia Batagianni, Christiana Doulami, Dimitris Chalkidis and Chrysanthi Chimona
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    In Search of the Lost Archetype? An Alternative Reading of the Illustrations Provided in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius

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    Giulia Orofino
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    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
    Sarah R. Kyle
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  • Part V: Medicinal Plants
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    Coriander in Archeology, Ancient Medical Literature, and Current Biomolecular Therapeutics

    347
    Taxiarchis Geladopoulos
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    Apuntes para una historia provisional e incompleta de la mandrágora (Mandragora spp.) en la tradición mágica árabo-islámica (siglos X–XVII)

    433
    Indalecio Lozano Cámara
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    Herbal Ingredients of Liquid Preparations in Nikolaos Myrepsos’s Dynameron

    461
    Elias Valiakos
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  • Part VI: Plant Therapies
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    Ξηροφθαλμία: Dry Eye Disorder in Greek and Latin Medical Sources

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    Ilias Nesseris and Dimitra Makri
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    “What Is This Herb”?

    533
    John M. Riddle
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    Plantes répellantes de manuscrits : le cas du Yémen

    547
    Anne Regourd, Jean-Marie Arnoult, Philippe Provençal and Ib Friis
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  • Part VII: More Materia medica
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    The Magi and the Crocodile

    567
    Anthony Lyman-Dixon
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    Wild Allium: Apotropaic Magic, Monastic Medicine: Cultural, Ecological, and Phytotherapeutic Importance

    579
    Josef A. Brinckmann and Alison L. Fields
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    Plant Cures in Late Twentieth-Century Nicosia, Cyprus

    599
    Demetrios Michaelides
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  • Part VIII: Circulation of Plants and Knowledge
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    Storax(es) of the Middle Ages: Confusion over a Medicinal Resin in Islamic Pharmacology

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    Koray Durak
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    Colóquios dos Simples de Garcia de Orta: Notícias sobre as drogas e especiarias da Ásia na Europa de Quinhentos

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    Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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    Plants and Manifest Destiny: U.S. Botanists and the ‘Cinchona Missions’ in Latin America (1942–1945)

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    Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
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  • Part IX: Ethnopharmacology
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    Dioscorides in the Caucasus: Medicinal Plants and Fungi of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus

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    Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, Zaal Kikvidze, Shalva Sikharulidze, David Kikodze, David Tchelidze, Manana Khutsishvili and Ketevan Batsatsashvili
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    The Traditional Moroccan Pharmacopeia Between Scholarly Medical Sources and Cultural Specificities

    709
    Jamal Bammi
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    Agreement and Meaning: Rethinking Consensus Analysis

    747
    Daniel E. Moerman
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  • Indexes
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    Introduction

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    Manuscripts and Texts

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    Plants and Botany

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    Remedies

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    General Indexes

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eBook published on:
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eBook ISBN:
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Hardcover published on:
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9783110776348
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Front matter:
24
Main content:
822
Illustrations:
10
Coloured Illustrations:
57
Tables:
14
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778878
eBook ISBN: 9783110778878
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Keywords for this book
Botany; Medicine; Pharmacy; History of Science
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Students and scholars of Classics, Medicine and Pharmacology
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