Inspiring innovation from tradition

  •  "Pharmaceutical Literature", in Albrecht Classen (ed.), Handbook of Medieval studies. Terms, Methods, Trends. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010, pp. 1979-2000.
  • Tacuinum sanitatis. Facsimile edition of the manuscript latin 9333 of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Barcelona: Moleiro Editorial, 2009. Volume 2 (commentary, 315 p.) includes an introduction and 3 chapters by Alain Touwaide: (pp. 11-12) Introduction; (pp. 13-30 [text] and 287-293 [notes]) A Way of Life; (p. 13-30 (text); (pp. 31-52 [text] and 294-299 [notes) A New Format; and (pp. 53-74 [text] and 300-301 [notes]) Health, Diseases, and Therapeutics. A Spanish and a French version have been produced by the same publisher, 2009.
  • Alain Touwaide (ed.), Herbolarium et materia medica. Libro de Estudios (Biblioteca Statale de Lucca, ms. 296). Facsimile y estudio del manuscrito 296 de la Biblioteca Civica de Lucca. Madrid: Arte y Naturaleza Ediciones, & Lucca: Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, 2007, facsimile and volume of commentary of 452 p., 101 color illustrations & 2 black & white. Vol. 2 (commentary) includes the following 6 chapters by Alain Touwaide: (pp. 9-10) "Prefacio"; (pp. 11-14) "Introducción: Una visión tradicional de la terapia medieval"; (pp. 29-41) "Las fuentes de la terapia medieval"; (pp. 63-154) "Las ilustraciones del manuscrito de Lucca"; (pp. 155-166) "Enfermedad y curación"; (pp. 421-425) "Conclusión: hacia una nueva historia de la terapia altomedieval". Vol. 2 also includes 3 chapters by Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez (pp. 17-25, 43-53 & 55-61), and the transcription and Spanish translation of the text in the manuscript by Jose Manuel Cañas Reillo (pp. 167-420).
  • Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds & Alain Touwaide (eds). Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1500 (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, volume 5). Aldershot; Ashgate, 2006, xx + 278 pp. Includes: (pp. xvii-xx) Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, Alain Touwaide, "Introduction"; and (pp. 25-50) Alain Touwaide, "Latin Crusaders, Byzantine Herbals". Other texts by Monica Azzolini (AUS), Piers D. Britton (USA), Jean Givens (USA), Cathleen Hoeniger (CDN), Peter Murray Jones (UK), Sarah Blake McHam (USA), Karen Reeds (USA), Claudia Swan (USA), & Alain Touwaide (USA).
  • "Dioscorides", "Galen" and "Hippocrates" in Thomas Glick, Steven J. Livesey & Faith Wallis (eds.), Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine. An Encyclopedia. New York & London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 152-154, 179-182, and 224-226.
  • "Lexica medico-botanica byzantina. Prolégomènes à une étude". In Tês filiês tade dôra - Miscelánea léxica en memoria de Conchita Serrano (Manuales y Anejos de «Emerita», XLI). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1999, pp. 211-228.

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