The Search for Wellbeing and Health between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Contents

Foreword

Cosmética, salud y belleza en la medicina hebrea medieval – Meritxell Blasco Orellana

Obras maestras de la farmacología andalusí – Ana María Cabo-González

Galen’s impact: wound treatment in De compositione medicamentorum per genera and beyond – Manuela Marai

Trading beauty. Commerce and cosmetic recipes in medieval and early modern ages – Rafael María Girón Pascual and Javier López Rider

El negocio del bienestar: una cuenta de farmacia del siglo XVI – Efrén de la Peña Barroso

Serving the Eye, Serving the Soul: Religion and Healing in Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583) – Wenrui Zhao

Manducare irrationabiliter: pica o apetito irracional en los textos médicos latinos medievales – Victoria Recio Muñoz

Mantenersi in salute nell’Alto Medioevo: Il ruolo terapeutico dell’esercizio fisico nel Manuale medico di Paolo di Nicea – Irene Calà

Restaurar la salud: Recetas para enfermos y remedios en los libros de cocina mexicanos de los siglos XVIII y XIX – Susana Phelts Ramos

The Health of Body and Soul in the Monastic Tradition – Gabriele Archetti

Ricettari per la bellezza e per la cura femminile – Simona Gavinelli

Immagini, ricette e salute nei Tacuina sanitati – Francesca Stroppa

Dieta y alimentación desde el Medievo hasta la Modernidad: el caso del Castillo de Torreparedones (Baena, Córdoba) – Alejandro Beltrán Ruiz, José A. Riquelme Cantal and Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita

About the Author

Javier López Rider is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Cordoba, Spain, member of the Meridies Research Group (HUM 128) and Director of Research Project 1381195-R. Recetarios, Experimentación y Ciencia. Los cuidados del cuerpo en la Edad Media y su aplicación en el siglo XXI, of the European Regional Development Fund and Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Andalusian Regional Government. He has published two books and over 30 articles and studied as a visiting scholar in Oxford, Rome, Newcastle and Florence.