Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos · Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Nov 2023 · Cambridge University Press

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In this volume a distinguished international team of scholars examines the history of drugs within all the major medical traditions of the medieval Mediterranean, namely Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin, and in so doing analyses a considerable number of previously unedited or barely explored texts. A Mediterranean-wide perspective permits a deeper understanding of broader phenomena such as the transfer of scientific knowledge and cultural exchange, by looking beyond single linguistic traditions or political boundaries. It also highlights the diversity and vitality of the medieval Mediterranean pharmacological tradition, which, through its close links with cookery, alchemy, magic, religion and philosophy, had to be able to adapt to multiple contexts, not least to changing social and political realities, as in the case of drugs as diplomatic gifts.

About the author

PETROS BOURAS-VaLLIANATOS is Associate Professor of History of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has published widely on Byzantine medicine and pharmacology. His most recent monograph, Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275–c.1330) (2020) has been awarded the Prize for Young Historians by the International Academy of the History of Science.

DIONYSIOS STATHAKOPOULOS is Assistant Professor in Byzantine History at the University of Cyprus. His main research focus is on Byzantine social history. His publications include Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire (2004), The Kindness of Strangers. Charity in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (2007) and A Short History of the Byzantine Empire (2014, rev. ed. 2023).

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