Infectious Ideas : Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean / / Justin K. Stearns
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| Autore: | Stearns Justin K. <1974-> |
| Titolo: | Infectious Ideas : Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean / / Justin K. Stearns |
| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 |
| ©2011 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.196/9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Plague - history - Spain |
| Plague - history - Portugal | |
| Plague - history - Africa, Northern | |
| Leprosy - history - Spain | |
| Leprosy - history - Portugal | |
| Leprosy - history - Africa, Northern | |
| Islam - Spain - History | |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Based on Stearns's analysis of Muslim and Christian legal, theological, historical, and medical texts in Arabic, Medieval Castilian, and Latin, Infectious Ideas is the first book to offer a comparative discussion of concepts of contagion in the premodern Mediterranean world. |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0105-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911149359403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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