Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, C.775-900

New Approaches to Recipe Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-46616-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 414 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 782 g

Reihe: Nuncius Series

Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied texts by not only analysing their practical usability, but by also re-evaluating these writings in the light of osteological evidence. Could those individuals with access to the manuscripts have used them in the context of therapy? And would they have wanted to do so? In asking these questions, this book unpacks longstanding assumptions about the intended purposes of medical texts, offering a new perspective on the relationship between medical knowledge and practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burridge, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of maps, figures, and tables

Note on transcription and translation

Note on weights, measures, and their symbols

Abbreviations

Map

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Practicality and applicability: A dual approach to Carolingian medical knowledge and practice

Part I: Practicality

2 Setting the scene: The texts, their contexts, and the need for a re-examination of practicality

3 Medicine and the mead hall? Using alcoholic beverages to explore potentially local materia medica

4 Impossible imports or available exotics? A study of non-local materia medicaI

5 Evidence for practicality beyond materia medica

Part II: Applicability

6 Reading recipes in the light of skeletal remains: An introduction to the integration of osteological evidence

7 Dental disease: From caries to cosmetics

8 Joint disease: Problematising podagra

9 Trauma and surgery: Evidence of undocumented medical practices?

Conclusion

10 Putting knowledge into practice

Appendices

Appendix 1: The manuscript sample

Appendix 2: Recipe transcriptions

Bibliography

List of manuscripts

Printed sources

Secondary scholarship

Index of materia medica

General index

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Burridge is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo, having previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the British School at Rome and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the University of Sheffield.