Drugs and Colours in History: Ritual, Art and Science

Contents

Prefacio: la materia medica como legado cultural europeo (Viaje a Itaca) – Marisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

Droghe e colori nei Papiri Greci d’Egitto. Il caso di φάρμακον – Nicola Reggiani

Medicine in the Centre of Ancient Rome: Places, Actors, and Practices – Domenico Palombi

Ocular Chromato-Therapy. The case of Crocodes Collyria – Muriel Pardon-Labonnelie and LAMS-Sorbonne Université

Belladona: entre el placer y la muerte – Antonio I. González Bueno y Alejandra Gómez Martín

Plantas psicoactivas en el arte y la medicina. De los orígenes de Cannabis sativa y sus propiedades terapéuticas – Eva Luna Muñoz Vidal, Cristina Vidal Lorenzo, Eva Luna Muñoz Vidal y Cristina Vidal Lorenzo

From stibium to Antimonial Drugs: in Search of the Miraculous Remedy – Ma. Julia Martínez García

Cera e Cioccolato: la Spezieria dei Padri Francescani delle Grazie tra Ex Voto e Peccati di Gola – Paola Artoni

Alchimisti allá Corte dei Gonzaga e Speziali Mantovani in Età Moderna – Paolo Bertelli

Andrés Laguna on mineral pigments, dyes and stones in Renaissance materia medica – Jesús María Galech Amillano

Il mondo laico della Sanità Romana: L’Universitas Aromatarium – Nobile Collegio Chimico Farmaceutico in San Lorenzo in Miranda – Alessandra Camerano et Laura Chiarotti

Ancient recipes and remedies from the spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala in Rome – Isabella Leone

Exploring the Mineral World Preserved in the Spezieria of Santa Maria Della Scala in Rome – Giovanni Cavallo

Organic compounds in the formulation of ancient pharmaceutical remedies – Giulia C. Lodi, Francesca C. Izzo, Pilar Campins Falcó, Rosa Herráez Hernández, Neus Jornet-Martínez, and Marisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual

The Woods of the Spezieria of Santa Maria della Scala – Mauro Bernabei, Jarno Bontadi and Nicola Macchioni

Pinyol Apothecary Project: The opportunity for an In-Depth Research – Eva Marín Aznar

Grey, Red, Yellow and White. a Contribution to the Study of Colours in the Pharmacognosy of the 19th Century at the Example of the Cinchonas – François Ledermann, Sara Ruppen, François Ledermann and Sara Ruppen

La ruta de las boticas monásticas en Galicia – Miguel Alvarez Soaje

Imaging Spectroscopy to Support the Identification of Ancient Pigments and Dyes – Marcello Picollo, Costanza Cucci, Andrea Casini, Lorenzo Stefani and E. Keats Webb

Natural Dyes used in Painting, Food and Drugs. Case Studies of Cultural Heritage Artefacts – Claudia Pelosi and Luca Lanteri

El púrpura-azul bíblico (tekhelet): magia y ritual – Cristina Expósito de Vicente

Los colores de la muerte: perspectivas geocronológicas y simbólicas sobre la decoración de los sudarios en el Egipto romano – Jónatan Ortiz-García y Amparo Mateo Donet

De Diversis Artibus. Un recetario de tecnología artística para el estudio de los barnices medievales – M. Antonia Zalbidea Muñoz, Miquel Àngel Herrero-Cortell y Jakub Zelazowski

On the Life of a Scriptorium: Unveiling the Interdisciplinary Study of the MS Alc.433 Manuscript and its Unique Chronological Record of the Work at the Portuguese Scriptorium of Alcobaça – Catarina Miguel, Shatila Fitri, Silvia Bottura-Scardina, Conceição Casanova and Catarina Fernandes Barreira

Ad Faciendum Lacham. Notas sobre la producción de carmines y lacas rojas en la pintura valenciana de los siglos XV y XVI – Miquel Àngel Herrero-Cortell and M Antonia Zalbidea Muñoz

De Cognicione Coloris.