The manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah are a unique source for medieval medical history. In Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, Lev and Ch

It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions.

Despite the Talmud being the richest repository of medical remedies in ancient Judaism, this important strain of Jewish thought has been largely ignored—even

A catalogue describing important texts and illuminating medical practice in medieval Egypt.

With a clear comparative approach, this volume brings together for the first time contributions that cover different periods of the history of ancient pharmacol