Infectious Ideas : Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean / / Justin K. Stearns

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463605403321
• Autore: Stearns Justin K. <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-4214-0105-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/9
• Soggetti: Plague - history - Spain; Plague - history - Portugal; Plague - history - Africa, Northern; Leprosy - history - Spain; Leprosy - history - Portugal; Leprosy - history - Africa, Northern; Islam - history - Spain; Islam - history - Portugal; Islam - history - Africa, Northern; Cross-Cultural Comparison - Spain; Cross-Cultural Comparison - Portugal; Cross-Cultural Comparison - Africa, Northern; Communicable Diseases - Spain; Communicable Diseases - Portugal; Communicable Diseases - Africa, Northern; Christianity - history - Spain; Christianity - history - Portugal; Christianity - history - Africa, Northern; Medicine in Literature - Spain; Medicine in Literature - Portugal; Medicine in Literature - Africa, Northern; Medicine - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500; Medicine - Religious aspects - Islam - History - To 1500; Epidemiology - History - To 1500; Medicine, Medieval - Western Mediterranean; Diseases - Causes and theories of causation - History - To 1500; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contagion in the commentaries on prophetic tradition -- Contagion as metaphor in Iberian Christian scholarship -- Contagion contested : Greek medical knowledge, prophetic medicine, and the first plague treatises -- Situating scholastic contagion between miasma and the evil eye -- Contagion between Islamic law and theology -- Contagion revisited : early modern Maghribi plague treatises -- Reframing Muslim and Christian views on contagion.