Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy

Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781351997799
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Book Synopsis Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy by : Sarah R. Kyle

Download or read book Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy written by Sarah R. Kyle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Carrara Herbal is an exceptional illustrated book of materia medica (therapeutic substances drawn from plants, animals and minerals). It is exceptional in both its illustrations and its content, making it of interest to historians of art and medicine alike. The Herbal contains a translation into Paduan dialect of a Latin version of the mid-thirteenth-century Arabic pharmacopeia, Kitab al-Adwiya al-mufrada (The Book of Simple Medicines), written by Ibn Sarabi, a Christian physician working in al-Andalus and known in the Latin West as Serapion the Younger."--Introduction.


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