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  • Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden

    par Peter Dendle, Peter Murray Jones, Philip Rusche, Terence Scully, Alain Touwaide, Deirdre Larkin, Expiración García Sánchez, George R. Keiser, Professor Linda E. Linda E. Voigts0, Maria D'Aronco1, Marijane Osborn2 ...
    The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine, is the focus of this new collection. Following a general introduction and a background chapter on Late Antique and medieval theories of wellness and therapy, in-depth essays treat such wide-ranging topics ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Out of the East

    Spices and the Medieval Imagination

    par Paul Freedman ...
    How medieval Europe's infatuation with expensive, fragrant, exotic spices led to an era of colonial expansion and discovery: "A consummate delight." —Marion Nestle, James Beard Award–winning author of Unsavory TruthThe demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant—and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical ... En savoir plus

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  • Passions and Tempers

    A History of the Humours

    par Noga Arikha ...
    This history of the four humours "may excite passions and tempers . . . as a good work of intellectual history should. You will learn a lot from its pages." ( Washington Post).Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours—blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler—flowed within the human body, determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Witches' Ointment

    The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic

    par Thomas Hatsis ...
    An exploration of the historical origins of the “witches’ ointment” and medieval hallucinogenic drug practices based on the earliest sources• Details how early modern theologians demonized psychedelic folk magic into “witches’ ointments”• Shares dozens of psychoactive formulas and recipes gleaned from rare manuscripts from university collections all over the world as well as the practices and ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • You Could Look It Up

    The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

    par Jack Lynch ...
    "Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries.You Could Look It Up chronicles ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

    Modifié par Stephen Harris, Bryon L. Grigsby ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle Ages than now.Ranging across religion, art, and science, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages unravels some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period, including ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD

  • Bibliophobia

    The End and the Beginning of the Book

    par Brian Cummings ...
    Collections series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse. It ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Medieval Robots

    Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art

    par E. R. Truitt ...
    Collections series The Middle Ages Series
    A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    par Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... En savoir plus

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  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    par Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine

    par John M. Riddle ...
    Collections series History of Science Series
    For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London

    Modifié par Petros Bouras-Vallianatos ...
    This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each ... En savoir plus

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