Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Contents: Introduction, John M. Riddle; Medieval Herbals: Medieval reception of classical plant names; The herbal as a medical document; Medieval herbals and their development; The theoretical bases of medieval herbalism; Magiferous plants and magic in medieval medical botany; Late Medieval Rezeptliteratur: Botanical data and late medieval 'Rezeptliteratur'; Rezeptliteratur as Fachliteratur; ...findet man in den apotecken: notices concerning the availability of medicamenta in medieval Fachliteratur; Renaissance Italy and Germany: Dioscorides and Renaissance materia medica; The botanico-medical background of Baptista Fiera's Coena de herbarum virtutibus; Hans von Gersdorff and some anonymous Strassburg apothecaries; Camerarius' contributions to medicine and pharmacy observations on his De theriacis et mithridateis commentariolus; P. A. Mattioli and some Renaissance editions of Dioscorides; P. A. Mattioli: sixteenth-century commentator on Dioscorides; Species Studies: The plant called Moly; Squill in ancient and medieval materia medica with special reference to its employment for dropsy; The multiple uses of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) in medieval medicine; Index.