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Darrera modificació: 2025-01-03
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Burridge, Claire, Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900: New Approaches to Recipe Literature, Leiden, Brill (Nuncius Series, 14), 2024, 355 pp.
- Resum
- Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied texts by not only analysing their practical usability, but by also reevaluating these writings in the light of osteological evidence. Could those individuals with access to the manuscripts have used them in the context of therapy? And would they have wanted to do so? In asking these questions, this book unpacks longstanding assumptions about the intended purposes of medical texts, offering a new perspective on the relationship between medical knowledge and practice.
Conté:
Introduction
Chapter 1 Practicality and Applicability. A Dual Approach to Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice · 3-37
Part 1 Practicality
Chapter 2 Setting the Scene. The Texts, Their Contexts, and the Need for a Re-examination of Practicality · 37–68
Chapter 3 Impossible Imports or Available Exotics? A Study of Non-local Materia Medica · 69–104
Chapter 4 Medicine and the Mead Hall? Using Alcoholic Beverages to Explore Potentially Local Materia Medica · 105–128
Chapter 5 Evidence for Practicality Beyond Materia Medica · 129–150
Part 2 Applicability
Chapter 6 Reading Recipes in the Light of Skeletal Remains. An Introduction to the Integration of Osteological Evidence · 153–172
Chapter 7 Dental Disease. From Caries to Cosmetics · 173–204
Chapter 8 Joint Disease. Problematising Podagra · 205–240
Chapter 9 Trauma and Surgery. Evidence of Undocumented Medical Practices? · 241–272
Conclusion
Chapter 10 Putting Knowledge. Into Practice · 275–286
Appendices
Appendix 1 The Manuscript Sample · 289–302
Appendix 2 Recipe Transcriptions · 303–355
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
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- URL
- https://brill.com/display/title/60421
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