A welcome contribution to the growing body of scholarship on early medical, scientific and other utilitarian texts. [...] The topic is both timely and important for the field of Medieval Studies which has, in recent decades, witnessed a renewed interest in utilitarian prose as a relatively untapped source of insight into the period.
ENGLISH STUDIES
This fascinating history ... Read moreshows how theories of health and disease evolved in the interplay of Western, Byzantine, and Arabic medicines and the relationship with the natural world.
AMERICAN HERB ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY
This collection is [...] extremely welcome, not only in that it fills what might be a rather obvious gap in the literature, but also for bringing to the task some of the biggest names in medieval medicine. I recommend the collection as a whole not only to medievalists (both early and late), but to anyone who may believe that the classical legacy was neglected or unknown until humanists rediscovered it, and to all those interested in plant-based medicine.
MEDICAL HISTORY
[A] fascinating collection. [...] On many different levels it opens up a new world of the association of plants to medicine.
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE on-line review
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