Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean

Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean
ISBN-10
1421401053
ISBN-13
9781421401058
Category
Medical
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2011-04-01
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Justin K. Stearns

Description

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.

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