DRUGS IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD (CA. 1050–CA. 1400) Friday 7th – Saturday 8th December 2018 (King's College London, Strand Campus Friday)
7 December: Council Room
09:30-09:45: Registration
09:45: Opening Remarks: Dionysios Stathakopoulos
09:50: Introduction: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
10:00-12:40: Session I, Chair: Dionysios Stathakopoulos (King’s College London)
Eliza Glaze (Coastal Carolina University): The Confluence of Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic Pharmacy: Southern Italy c. 1050-1150 CE
Arsenio Ferraces-Rodríguez (Universidade da Coruña): The Epistula de vulture in Two 12th-Century Manuscripts: Magic, Medicine and Ideology
Jeffrey Doolittle (Fordham University): ‘Efficassimum est Alexandrinum’: Drugs and Efficacy in Early Medieval Latin Pharmacology
Thanasis Rinotas (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Drawing Lines of Connection between the Medicinal Properties of Stones and Philosophy in the Work of Albertus Magnus
12:40-13:40: Lunch
13:40-15:40: Session II, Chair: Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London): Myrobalans: The Making of a Eurasian Panacea
Leigh Chipman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Digestive Syrups and After Dinner Drinks – Food or Medicine?
15:40-16:00: Coffee/Tea
16:00-18:40: Session III, Chair: Richard Greenfield (Queen's University, Kingston)
Efraim Lev (University of Haifa): The Alternative Uses of the Medieval Medicinal Substances that were Brought by the Arabs from the East
Fabian Käs (Universität zu Köln): Ibn al-Tilmīdh’s Book on Simple Drugs. A Christian Physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian Nomenclature of Plants and Minerals
Ayman Atat (Technische Universität Braunschweig): The Transmission of Pharmaceutical Knowledge through Ibn Al-Bayṭār (13th Century)
Phillip I. Lieberman (Vanderbilt University): Remedies or Superstitions: Maimonides on Mishna Shabbat 6:10
Saturday, 8 December: Council Room (K2.29)
10:00-12:40: Session IV, Chair: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London)
Grigory Kessel (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften & University of Manchester): Materia Medica in One Unedited Syriac Medical Manual
Sivan Gottlieb (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): “et probatum est” – A Hebrew Herbarium between Text and Illustration
Heinrich Evanzin (Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg): The Use of Heliotherapy Against Skin Diseases in Medieval Armenia – A Case Study on Ptychotis verticillata
Michael Stanley-Baker (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): Tracking Materia Medica Across Time, Space, Genre, and Language
12:40-13:40: Lunch
13:40-16:10: Session V, Chair: William Maclehose (University College London)
Matteo Martelli (Università di Bologna): Mineral Drugs in Byzantine and Syriac RecipeBooks on Alchemy
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London): Pharmacological Knowledge Among Greek-Speaking Physicians in Twelfth-Century Southern Italy and Sicily
Richard Greenfield (Queen's University, Kingston): Making Magic Happen: Understanding ‘Drugs’ in Later Byzantine Sorcery
Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley): Byzantine Greek Medical Glossaries of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Terms
16:10-16:30: Coffee/Tea
16:30-17:00: Concluding Remarks: Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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