Infectious ideas [electronic resource] : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xx, 279 p. )Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421401058
- 1421401053
- 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
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- RB152 .S74 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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