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Author : Dominic Olariu
Release : 2018
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Book Synopsis Rezension Von: Sarah Kyle, Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy : The "Carrara Herbal" in Padua by : Dominic Olariu
Download or read book Rezension Von: Sarah Kyle, Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy : The "Carrara Herbal" in Padua written by Dominic Olariu. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy. The "Carrara Herbal" in Padua, Sarah Kyle. - [Rezension] by : Dominic Olariu
Download or read book Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy. The "Carrara Herbal" in Padua, Sarah Kyle. - [Rezension] written by Dominic Olariu. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah R. Kyle
Release : 2016-08-12
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy by : Sarah R. Kyle
Download or read book Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy written by Sarah R. Kyle. This book was released on 2016-08-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Carrara Herbal is an exceptional illustrated book of materia medica (therapeutic substances drawn from plants, animals and minerals). It is exceptional in both its illustrations and its content, making it of interest to historians of art and medicine alike. The Herbal contains a translation into Paduan dialect of a Latin version of the mid-thirteenth-century Arabic pharmacopeia, Kitab al-Adwiya al-mufrada (The Book of Simple Medicines), written by Ibn Sarabi, a Christian physician working in al-Andalus and known in the Latin West as Serapion the Younger."--Introduction.
Author : Sarah R Kyle
Release : 2020-07-02
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Book Synopsis Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy by : Sarah R Kyle
Download or read book Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy written by Sarah R Kyle. This book was released on 2020-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged. The manuscript contains an illustrated, vernacular copy of the thirteenth-century pharmacopeia by Ibn Sarābī, an Arabic-speaking Christian physician working in al-Andalus known in the West as Serapion the Younger. By 1290, Serapion's treatise was available in Latin translation and circulated widely in medical schools across the Italian peninsula. Commissioned in the late fourteenth century by the prince of Padua, Francesco II 'il Novello' da Carrara (r. 1390-1405), the Carrara Herbal attests to the growing presence of Arabic medicine both inside and outside of the University. Its contents speak to the Carrara family's historic role as patrons and protectors of the Studium, yet its form - a luxury book in Paduan dialect adorned with family heraldry and stylistically diverse representations of plants - locates it in court culture. In particular, the manuscript's form connects Serapion's treatise to patterns of book collection and rhetorics of self-making encouraged by humanists and practiced by Francesco's ancestors. Beginning with Petrarch (1304-74) and continuing with Pier Paolo Vergerio (ca. 1369-1444), humanists held privileged positions in the Carrara court, and humanist culture vied with the University's successes for leading roles in Carrara self-promotion. With the other illustrated books in the prince's collection, the Herbal negotiated these traditional arenas of family patronage and brought them into confluence, promoting Francesco as an ideal 'physician prince' capable of ensuring the moral and physical health of Padua. Considered in this way, the Carrara Herbal is the product of an intersection between the Pan-Mediterranean transmission of medical knowle
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Release : 2023-12-14
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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era by : Andrew Dalby
Download or read book A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era written by Andrew Dalby. This book was released on 2023-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era covers the period from 1400 to 1650, a time of discovery and rediscovery, of experiment and innovation. Renaissance learning brought ancient knowledge to modern European consciousness whilst exploration placed all the continents in contact with one another. The dissemination of knowledge was further speeded by the spread of printing. New staples and spices, new botanical medicines, and new garden plants all catalysed agriculture, trade, and science. The great medical botanists of the period attempted no less than what Marlowe's Dr Faustus demanded - a book “wherein I might see all plants, herbs, and trees that grow upon the earth.” Human impact on plants and our botanical knowledge had irrevocably changed. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. Andrew Dalby is an independent scholar and writer, based in France. Annette Giesecke is Professor of Classics at the University of Delaware, USA. Volume 3 in the Cultural History of Plants set. General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.
