IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1040: Food and Medicine in the Mediterranean World: Indigenous and Introduced Species - Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, I
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC / Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History & Culture of the Mediterranean Area & South-East Europe Ceraneum, Łódź |
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Organiser: | Maciej Kokoszko, Department of Byzantine History, University of Łódź |
Moderator/Chair: | Maciej Kokoszko, Department of Byzantine History, University of Łódź |
Paper 1040-a | Infant Feeding Practices: Ancient and Byzantine Sources Meet Archaeological Science (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Medicine |
Paper 1040-b | Butter of the Greeks and the Byzantines: The Testimony of Late Antique and Byzantine Medical Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Greek, Medicine |
Paper 1040-c | Beet (Beta Vulgaris L.) in Ancient and Early Byzantine Medical Writings (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Greek, Medicine |
Abstract | The planned session aims to investigate the interconnections between food and medicine in the Mediterranean World from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. It will focus on four major lines of inquiry: 1. tracing the interplay between native and introduced botanical species used as |