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Book The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo Geber

Download or read book The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo Geber written by Pseudo-Geber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1991 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work contains a critical edition, translation, and study of the "Summa perfectionis" of Pseudo-Geber, the most influential of the many texts of medieval alchemy. The study addresses such questions as the author's identity, his corpuscular theory of matter, the influence of the "Summa," and its own sources.

Book Ramon Llull as a Vernacular Writer

Download or read book Ramon Llull as a Vernacular Writer written by Lola Badia and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors maintain that Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because he organized the production and dissemination of his writings in a creative and unconventional fashion. Ramon Llull (1232-1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher and author of narrative and poetry, wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular claiming he had been given a new science to unveil the Truth. This book shows why his Latin andvernacular books cannot be read as if they had been written in isolation from one another. Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because he organized theproduction and dissemination of his writings in a creative and unconventional fashion. At a time when learned texts and university culture were conveyed for the most part using the vehicle of Latin, he wrote a substantial proportion of his theological and scientific works in his maternal Catalan while, at the same time, he was deeply involved in the circulation of such works in other Romance languages. These circumstances do not preclude the fact that a considerable number of the titles comprising his extensive output of more than 260 works were written directly in Latin, or that he had various books which were originally conceived in Catalan subsequently translated or adapted intoLatin. Lola Badia is a professor in the Catalan Philology Departament at the University of Barcelona. Joan Santanach is Lecturer of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona. Albert Soler (1963) is Lecturer of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona.

Book Aphorismi de Gradibus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arnaldus (de Villanova)
  • Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9788460067122
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Aphorismi de Gradibus written by Arnaldus (de Villanova) and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medicine and Religion  C  1300

Download or read book Medicine and Religion C 1300 written by Joseph Ziegler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the cultural role of medicine among learned people around 1300, the author argues that fusion rather than disjunction characterised the relationship between medicine and religion.

Book Renaissance Medical Learning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Rogers McVaugh
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780934235181
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Renaissance Medical Learning written by Michael Rogers McVaugh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in this volume address the theme of medical knowledge in western Europe between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, and trace developments in the ways in which the specialized knowledge appropriate to the medical profession was conceived, articulated, and put to use.

Book Galen and Galenism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luis García Ballester
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Galen and Galenism written by Luis García Ballester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Galenism, a rational medical system embracing all health- and disease-related matters, and the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It deals with a range of issues regarding the historical Galen and late-mediaeval and Renaissance Galenism

Book Medicine Before the Plague

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Rogers McVaugh
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-07-11
  • ISBN : 9780521524544
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Medicine Before the Plague written by Michael Rogers McVaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.

Book Actes de la I Trobada Internacional d Estudis sobre Arnau de Vilanova

Download or read book Actes de la I Trobada Internacional d Estudis sobre Arnau de Vilanova written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alchemists Through the Ages

Download or read book Alchemists Through the Ages written by Arthur E. Waite and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy-the word itself conjures up images of charlatans mixing potions and concocting remedies during the Middle Ages in a futile quest to transform lead into gold. But the roots of alchemy can be traced back more than 2,500 years to locales as disparate as Egypt, India, and China, and it was considered serious science until as recently as the 16th century. In this highly regarded volume first published in 1888, Arthur E. Waite examines the lives and works of more than fifty alchemists, from the year 850 through the end of the 18th century. Readers will learn about such renowned figures as Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and Pope John XXII, and decide for themselves whether alchemy was the true precursor to modern chemistry or a pseudo-science populated by quacks. American-born British author ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE (1857-1942) was co-creator of the famous 1910 Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Among his numerous books are Book of Ceremonial Magic, Devil Worship in France, and New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.

Book Anthimi De observatione ciborum

Download or read book Anthimi De observatione ciborum written by Anthimus and published by Prospect Books (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthimus was a Greek doctor condemned by the Emperor of Constantinople to a life of exile at the court of Theodoric the Ostrogoth, barbarian ruler of Italy at the beginning of the 6th century AD. In the course of his life in Ravenna he was sent as ambassador to the King of the Franks and, perhaps as a sweetener to his fierce yet royal host, wrote a letter about foods - which were good for you, which were bad, and in some cases how to cook and serve them. It may reasonably be called the first French cookery book. various errors of fact in earlier editions, a Latin text based on the editio princeps of 1864, a modern English translation, and a detailed commentary on the work itself, with many cross-references to classical medical treatises, the literature of classical cookery and modern scholarship insofar as it knows anything of the food and cookery of the early Merovingian Franks. linguistic transition from classical to medieval Latin, but rarely has it been treated for what it was - a cookery and medical treatise. It shows cooking on the cusp between the bread-, vegetable- and oil-based cuisine of the Mediterranean and the meat-dominated cookery of the northern forests.

Book Ancient and Medieval Memories

Download or read book Ancient and Medieval Memories written by Janet Coleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that behind the various medieval methods in interpreting texts of the past lie two apparently incompatible theories of human knowledge and remembering, as well as two differing attitudes to matter and intellect. The book comprises a series of studies which take ancient texts as evidence of the past, and show how medieval readers and writers understood them. The studies confirm that medieval and renaissance interpretations and uses of the past differ greatly from modern interpretation and yet betray many startling continuities between modern and ancient and medieval theories.

Book The Book of Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary J. Carruthers
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-05-14
  • ISBN : 9780521429733
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book The Book of Memory written by Mary J. Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world.

Book Essays in the History of Medicine

Download or read book Essays in the History of Medicine written by Max Neuburger and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arnaldi de Villanova De esu carnium

Download or read book Arnaldi de Villanova De esu carnium written by Arnaldus (de Villanova) and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death

Download or read book Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death written by Luis García Ballester and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.

Book Platina s On Right Pleasure and Good Health

Download or read book Platina s On Right Pleasure and Good Health written by Platina and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: