IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1140: Food and Medicine in the Mediterranean World: Indigenous and Introduced Species - The High and the Late Middle Ages, II
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
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 1140-a | 'Le suc de la rosée céleste': le miel dans la médecine antique et renaissante (Language: Français) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin, Medicine |
Paper 1140-b | Drugs, Diet, and Lifestyle in Ioannes Archiatrus, a Vernacular Greek Source (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Language and Literature - Greek, Medicine |
Paper 1140-c | Colchicine in Byzantine Medical Tradition: The Case of Gout's Treatment According to Demetrios Pepagomenos's Treatise Liber de podagra (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, 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 |