A Cretan Healer S Handbook In The Byzantine Tradition

Author : Professor Patricia Ann Clark
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781409482567

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A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition by Professor Patricia Ann Clark Pdf

In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia, practical handbooks dating mainly to the 17th to 19th centuries which compiled healing wisdom, along with snippets of agricultural, meteorological and veterinary advice, and admixtures of religion, astrology and magic. Both fascinating and of critical importance, iatrosophia allow glimpses of classical and Byzantine medical sources and illustrate the vitality and resilience of Greek traditional medical and botanical knowledge. From years spent exploring local healing customs in Crete's Amari region, Patricia Clark is able to present Theodorakis' iatrosophion against a rich historical, geographical and social background. Introductory essays and explanatory notes to the translation give context to the iatrosophion and provide the specialized information necessary for a good understanding of the text. The abundant materia medica of the notebook is treated in a substantial appendix. Each animal, mineral, plant or product is provided with an overview of its various names through the millennia. Such entries are not only a key to understanding the Greek medical legacy, but also a vivid illustration of its usage from antiquity to the present day.

Author : Patricia Ann Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317188599

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A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition by Patricia Ann Clark Pdf

In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia, practical handbooks dating mainly to the 17th to 19th centuries which compiled healing wisdom, along with snippets of agricultural, meteorological and veterinary advice, and admixtures of religion, astrology and magic. Both fascinating and of critical importance, iatrosophia allow glimpses of classical and Byzantine medical sources and illustrate the vitality and resilience of Greek traditional medical and botanical knowledge. From years spent exploring local healing customs in Crete's Amari region, Patricia Clark is able to present Theodorakis' iatrosophion against a rich historical, geographical and social background. Introductory essays and explanatory notes to the translation give context to the iatrosophion and provide the specialized information necessary for a good understanding of the text. The abundant materia medica of the notebook is treated in a substantial appendix. Each animal, mineral, plant or product is provided with an overview of its various names through the millennia. Such entries are not only a key to understanding the Greek medical legacy, but also a vivid illustration of its usage from antiquity to the present day.

Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148050

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Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece by Steven M. Oberhelman Pdf

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells), and home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three major diachronic periods. The first group focuses on the classical Greek through late Roman Greek periods. Topics include dreams in the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Asclepius and its healing centers, with their incubation and miracle dream-cures; dreams in the writings of Galen and other medical writers of the Roman Empire; and medical dreams in popular oneirocritic texts, especially the second-century C.E. dreambook by Artemidorus of Daldis, the most noted professional dream interpreter of antiquity. The second group of papers looks to the Christian Byzantine era, when dream incubation and dream healings were practised at churches and shrines, carried out by living and dead saints. Also discussed are dreams as a medical tool used by physicians in their hospital praxis and in the practical medical texts (iatrosophia) that they and laypeople consulted for the healing of disease. The final papers deal with dreams and healing in Greece from the Turkish period of Greece down to the current day in the Greek islands. The concluding chapter brings the book a full circle by discussing how modern psychotherapists and psychologists use Ascelpian dream-rituals on pilgrimages to Greece.

Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781009389747

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Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Dionysios Stathakopoulos Pdf

Adopts a pan-Mediterranean approach to the study of medieval medicine and pharmacology, which permits a deeper understanding of broader phenomena such as the transfer of scientific knowledge and cultural exchange. Of great importance to medical historians, medieval historians and scholars of Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin traditions.

Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110661231

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Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece by Steven M. Oberhelman Pdf

This book is a study of three iatrosofia (the notebooks of traditional healers) from the Ottoman and modern periods of Greece. The main text is a collection of the medical recipes of the monk Gymnasios Lauriōtis (b. 1858). Gymnasios had a working knowledge of over 2,000 plants and their use in medical treatments. Two earlier iatrosofia are used for parallels for Gymnasios’s recipes. One was written c. 1800 by a practical doctor near Khania, Crete, and illustrated by a second hand. The second iatrosofion dates to the sixteenth century; ascribed to a Meletios, the text survives in the Codex Vindobonensis gr. med. 53. The contents of these and other iatrosofia are predominantly medical, with many of the remedies taken from folk medicine, classical and Hellenistic pharmacological writers, and Galen. The book opens with a biography of the monk Gymnasios and his recipes and then a description of the Cretan and Meletios iatrosofia. The iatrosophia, their role in Greek medical history, and the methods of healing are the subject of chapter 2. The Greek text of Gymnasios’s recipes are accompanied by a facing English translation. A commentary offers for each of Gymnasios’s recipes passages (translated into English) from the two other iatrosophia to serve as parallels, as well as an analysis of the pharmacopoeia in the medical texts. The book concludes with Greek and English indices of the material medica (plants, mineral, and animal substances) and the diseases, and then a general index.

Author : Rena N. Lauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812250886

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Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete by Rena N. Lauer Pdf

When Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both culturally and economically throughout the period of Venetian rule, and although it adhered to traditional Jewish ways of life, the community also readily engaged with the broader population and the island's Venetian colonial government. In Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, Rena N. Lauer tells the story of this unusual and little-known community through the lens of its flexible use of the legal systems at its disposal. Grounding the book in richly detailed studies of individuals and judicial cases—concerning matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as bigamy and murder—Lauer brings the Jews of Candia vibrantly to life. Despite general rabbinic disapproval of such behavior elsewhere in medieval Europe, Crete's Jews regularly turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system. There they aired disputes between family members, business partners, spouses, and even the leaders of their community. And with their use of secular justice as both symptom and cause, Lauer contends, Crete's Jews grew more open and flexible, confident in their identity and experiencing little of the anti-Judaism increasingly suffered by their coreligionists in Western Europe.

Author : Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521851596

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Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium by Sharon E. J. Gerstel Pdf

This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine village through written, archaeological and painted sources.

Author : Barbara S. Bowers
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 075465110X

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The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice by Barbara S. Bowers Pdf

Using an innovative approach to evidence for the medieval hospital and medical practice, this collection of essays presents new research by leading international scholars in creating a holistic look at the hospital as an environment within a social and intellectual context.

Author : Ghulam Moinuddin Chishti,Hakim G. M. Chishti
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0892814381

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The Traditional Healer's Handbook by Ghulam Moinuddin Chishti,Hakim G. M. Chishti Pdf

This comprehensive guide to healing synthesizes the principles and practices of Hippocratic, Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Persian medicine, and includes the first English translation of one of the handbooks of Avicenna, whose writings have been classics in herbal and dietetic medicine for more than 1,000 years. Based on the philosophy that "food is the best medicine," Avicenna's canon provides simple and effective diagnostic techniques and therapies for maintaining health and strengthening the immune system. Includes a botanical guide for the 100 most-used healing herbs and recommended treatments for 400 conditions, including diet and nutrition, herbology, and aromatherapy.

Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 140944306X

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A Medical-Magical Healing Manual from Ottoman Greece by Steven M. Oberhelman Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys,John F. Haldon,Robin Cormack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199252466

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies by Elizabeth Jeffreys,John F. Haldon,Robin Cormack Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.

Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110664430

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Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece by Steven M. Oberhelman Pdf

This book is a study of three iatrosofia (the notebooks of traditional healers) from the Ottoman and modern periods of Greece. The main text is a collection of the medical recipes of the monk Gymnasios Lauriōtis (b. 1858). Gymnasios had a working knowledge of over 2,000 plants and their use in medical treatments. Two earlier iatrosofia are used for parallels for Gymnasios’s recipes. One was written c. 1800 by a practical doctor near Khania, Crete, and illustrated by a second hand. The second iatrosofion dates to the sixteenth century; ascribed to a Meletios, the text survives in the Codex Vindobonensis gr. med. 53. The contents of these and other iatrosofia are predominantly medical, with many of the remedies taken from folk medicine, classical and Hellenistic pharmacological writers, and Galen. The book opens with a biography of the monk Gymnasios and his recipes and then a description of the Cretan and Meletios iatrosofia. The iatrosophia, their role in Greek medical history, and the methods of healing are the subject of chapter 2. The Greek text of Gymnasios’s recipes are accompanied by a facing English translation. A commentary offers for each of Gymnasios’s recipes passages (translated into English) from the two other iatrosophia to serve as parallels, as well as an analysis of the pharmacopoeia in the medical texts. The book concludes with Greek and English indices of the material medica (plants, mineral, and animal substances) and the diseases, and then a general index.

Author : Andreas K. Demetriades
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Traditional medicine
ISBN : 9963732151

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Iatrosophikón by Andreas K. Demetriades Pdf

Author : Paul Kevin Meagher,Thomas C. O'Brien,Consuelo Maria Aherne
Publisher : Philadelphia, Pa. : Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia ; Washington, D.C. : Corpus Publications
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39076001190953

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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religion by Paul Kevin Meagher,Thomas C. O'Brien,Consuelo Maria Aherne Pdf

Author : Plinio Prioreschi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781888456042

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A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine by Plinio Prioreschi Pdf