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Infectious Ideas Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stearns, Justin K., 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plague--history--Spain.
- Plague.
- Plague--history--Portugal.
- Plague--history--Africa, Northern.
- Leprosy--history--Spain.
- Leprosy.
- Leprosy--history--Portugal.
- Leprosy--history--Africa, Northern.
- Islam--Spain--History.
- Islam.
- Islam--history--Portugal.
- Islam--history--Africa, Northern.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison--Spain.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison--Portugal.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison--Africa, Northern.
- Communicable diseases--Spain.
- Communicable diseases.
- Communicable diseases--Portugal.
- Communicable diseases--Africa, Northern.
- Christianity--history--Spain.
- Christianity.
- Christianity--history--Portugal.
- Christianity--history--Africa, Northern.
- Medicine in literature--Spain.
- Medicine in literature.
- Medicine in literature--Portugal.
- Medicine in literature--Africa, Northern.
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--To 1500.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Islam--History--To 1500.
- Epidemiology--History--To 1500.
- Epidemiology.
- Medicine, Medieval--Western Mediterranean.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Diseases--Causes and theories of causation--History--To 1500.
- Diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0105-3
- OCLC:
- 794700366
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