In the Literature
From Egypt and Aristotle to the Future
The interest in what is traditionally called material life is increasing and takes a new dimension. The title of a recently published work by Robert Knapp on the topic is eloquent: Invisible Romans. It is devoted to the ordinary people who made the Roman world in their daily life, and not to the emperors, generals and others who immortalized themselves in visible archeological remains. Medicine is not absent from the picture and from recent production ...
Read more: From Egypt and Aristotle to the FutureGoing Digital
New Web sites, the Archaia/Nea newsletter, and the series Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean are just some of the many publications that the Institute created, diffused or edited during the year 2012. This without counting the articles and other scientific contributions authored by the scholars in the Institute.
Read more: Going DigitalBaghdad,Crete, Salerno. And more...
The Mediterranean world is more than ever the object of renewed publications. Three of them illustrate the exchanges of knowledge and the continuity of tradition until the 20th century. But this is not all.
Read more: Baghdad,Crete, Salerno. And more...Renaissances?
Medicinal plants are currently the object of multiple works, many of which rely on tradition(s). The further this trend goes, the more critical the question(s) it raises: what does it actually mean to rely on traditions, what does it imply, what methods are required to take advantage of traditions in a reliable way? And, more than anything else, what are the possibilities to generate the new medicines that are urgently needed? Although not all works contribute to the debate with an equal success, all have at least the merit to open a debate and to provide food for thought.
Read more: Renaissances?Internationalization
From the Clash of Cultures to the present globalization, the pendulum of historical interpretations hesitates. A host of new (and some less new) publications suggests that reality was much more complex, at least in the field of medical traditions and sciences.
Read more: Internationalization
