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Ignis sacer. Una storia culturale del ‘fuoco sacro’ dall’antichità al Settecento. Micrologus Library, 51.
Firenze, Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo 2013, 210x140mm, XVIII - 257pagine, in brossura. Nuovo stato.
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Tradizione medievale ed edizione critica del “Somnium Scipionis”. Millennio Medievale, 33. Sottocollana, Testi, 10.
Firenze, Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo 2002, 245x175mm, XIII - 577pagine, legatura del editore con sovracopperta. Ottimo stato.
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Naming Pathology from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 273, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 tables b/w., Languages: English, Greek, Latin. ISBN 9782503620114.
Summary This collection of contributions from international scholars offers a cross-language and multi-period analysis dedicated to the constitution of the lexicon of pathology between Antiquity and the Early Modern period. By analysing unpublished texts and studying sources written in different languages (Greek, Latin, Arabic and different vernaculars), the authors demonstrate that the pathological terminology of the past did not have an unambiguous meaning and therefore, to be understood, must be historicized and evaluated according to sources and context. The volume offers the reader the possibility of observing continuity and change in the perception, representation and theoretic paradigm of the disease lexicon, in a wide range of cultural contexts. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Names of Diseases of the Past: A Challenge for Historians (Alessandra Foscati & Mich le Goyens) Disease Names in Latin Translations of Galen's Works from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: The Case of ??????, ?????, ??????????, and ????????? (Stefania Fortuna) Scotomia: A Label in Search of an Illness (Michael McVaugh) The Enlarged Clitoris: Naming and Defining Female Pathology in Rodrigo De Castro's De uniuersa mulierum medicina (Cristina Santos Pinheiro) The Medical Lexicon of Sleep Disorders (Ana Isabel Mart n Ferreira & Cristina de la Rosa Cubo) The Lexicon of an Eating Disorder in Latin Medical Texts: A Case of Renaissance Pica (Victoria Recio Mu oz) In nostro vulgare dicuntur lo tac: The Complexity of Naming Diseases in Latin and French Texts (Alessandra Foscati) A Pathology Related to Cold in Early Modern Southern Italy: References to the male del freddo in Hagiographic Sources (Marco Papasidero) Gr?ce liquoides, Latine lupus id est strangulatio: The Names of the Diseases in the Pseudo-Galenic De Spermate (Outi Merisalo) The Arabic-Latin Astrological Tradition of Disease Names and Descriptions (Charles Burnett) Index of Authors and Physicians of the Past Index of Disease Names from the Source Texts
Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World. European and Middle Eastern Cultures, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xxiv + 357 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:38 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503580555.
Summary This volume of contributions from international scholars offers a cross-cultural and multi-period analysis of pregnancy and childbirth traditions in Western and Middle Eastern cultures. The studies focus on the ideas, practices, and visual representations surrounding pregnancy and birth-giving from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance and offer the reader the possibility of observing the perception, representation, and theoretic paradigm of these events in a wide range of cultural contexts. The collection fits within multiple traditions of specialized scholarship, yet its scope suggests a geographically global approach and a new, multicultural methodology that encompasses a wide range of practices, historical periods, and topics. On one hand, it participates in the well-established medical, historical, and iconographic discourse on childbirth and family that has enticed much interest over the last two decades; on the other, its unique thematic structure includes cultures and periods previously ignored in similar collections of essays. The articles span from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and India, and connect the experience of childbirth to the exchanges of knowledge, religious beliefs, and social practices. With its variety of topics and specializations, the volume encourages a global comparative approach to the cultural narrative surrounding the activities and attitudes connected to conception and birth, paying particular attention to material culture, religion, history, and iconography, as well as to the exchange and dispersion of medical knowledge. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface - CHARLES BURNETT Indroduction - COSTANZA GISLON DOPFEL Part 1: Cultural Exchanges and Transmission of Knowledge Educating the Midwife. The Role of Illustration in Late Antique and Medieval Obstetrical Texts - FRANCESCA MARCHETTI Pregnancy and Birth in Middle-Persian Zoroastrian Literature: The Exchange of Knowledge between India, Iran, and Greece in Late Antiquity - PAOLO DELAINI Tracing the Maternal Body in Medieval Muslim Gynaecological Texts - KATHRYN KUENY Calculating Birth: Abraham Ibn Ezra's Role in the Creation and Diffusion of the Trutina Hermetis - SHLOMO SELA Part 2: Birth, Death, and Magic Mother and Child: Archaeological Evidence of Childbirth Complications in Medieval Normandy - ARMELLE ALDUC-LE BAGOUSSE, C CILE CHAPELAIN DE SER VILLE-NIEL, and RAPHA LLE LEFEBVRE 'Girde hyr wythe thys mesure': Birth Girdles, the Church, and Lollards - MARY MORSE Prayer as Obstetric Practice at Thirteenth-Century La Cambre - SARA RITCHEY Retracing Childbirth Through Hagiographical Texts and Canonization Processes in Italy and France between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - ALESSANDRA FOSCATI Part 3: Lying-in and Holy Birth: Tradition, Iconography, and Political Statement 'Lying-in' in High Medieval England - FIONA HARRIS-STOERTZ Mary and Eve: The Permanence of the First Mother in Armenian Apocryphal Infancy Gospels - VALENTINA CALZOLARI Mystras' Byzantine Frescoes: The Political Message in the Iconography of the Birth of Mary - ANTONELLA PARMEGGIANI Holy Mothers and Vanished Nativities: Maternal Art as Female Visual Epic in Quattrocento Florence - COSTANZA GISLON DOPFEL Index
