IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 132: Empires of Pharmacy in the Long 12th Century, I

Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	'Medicine in the Long 12th Century' Working Group
Organiser:	Florence Eliza Glaze, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University
Moderator/Chair:	Florence Eliza Glaze, Department of History, Coastal Carolina University
Paper 132-a	Notebooks as Mediators between Practical and Theoretical Pharmaceutical Knowledge in the Judeo-Arabic Tradition (Language: English) Efraim Lev, Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa Index terms: Economics - Trade, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine
Paper 132-b	Chinese Rhubarb and Cretan Dodder: Materia medica between East Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean (Language: English) Leigh Chipman, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan Index terms: Economics - Trade, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine
Paper 132-c	Byzantine Pharmacology between East and West in the 12th and 13th Centuries (Language: English) Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine
Abstract	These papers explore the ways in which the 'long 12th century' (c. 1075-1250) witnessed the creation of a unified pharmaceutical 'empire', where the same elements of materia medica came to define the pharmaceutical uses of virtually the whole of Eurasia and North Africa. Session I examines evidence from the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia.