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Poison. Knowledge, Uses, Practices

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C. Mordeglia, Introduction. L. Canfora, La strana morte dei consoli del ‘43 – F. M. Galassi, Analisi paleopatologica della morte del console Pansa – F. Boero, Il lessico dei veleni in Plauto – S. La Barbera, Who Poisoned Rome? Traces of Nicander’s Venoms in Latin Literature – C. Mordeglia, Veleni sulla scena (Note a Sen. Med. 670-849 e Herc. Oe. 256-582) – S. Isetta, Figure del veleno tra esegesi biblica e agiografia – A. Paravicini Bagliani, Paura del veleno e cerimonialità pontificia. Una storia (quasi) millenaria – M. Montesano, La strega avvelenatrice – M. Pastoureau, Le bestiaire médiéval des animaux venimeux – F. Santi, Il rumore del veleno – G. Ferrario, «Pauca numero et utilibus»: Maimonides’ Treatise on Poisons and Its Graeco-Arabic Sources – F. Collard, Poisons de fiction et savoirs vénénologiques: quelles circulations entre la production savante et la production littéraire? (France, XIIe-XVe siècle) – D. Jacquart, Les multiples facettes des relations entre empoisonnement et peste dans les explications médicales de la fin du Moyen Âge – B. Laurioux, La cuisine et le poison à la fin du Moyen Âge – W. Stephens, Veneficium/Maleficium/Sacramentum: Natural and Occult Forces in Witches’ Poisons – L. M. Principe, Poisons and Medicines, Ferments and Transmutations – F. Brenna, Honey Turning into Poison: Satanic Poetry in Early Modern Literary Theory from Italy to Milton – N. Castel-Branco, Friendship Fostered by Poison: The Collaboration of Nicolaus Steno and Francesco Redi – G. Paduano, Pozioni wagneriane – M. Ansaldo, Da Hitler a Erdogan, la grande paura dei leader di essere avvelenati – A. Paravicini Bagliani, Concluding Remarks. Indexes by F. Boero.

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  • TitlePoison. Knowledge, Uses, Practices
  • Year of publication2022
  • CityFirenze
  • Academic PublisherSismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo
  • CollectionMicrologus Library
  • Volume112
  • ISBN978-88-9290-122-3
  • Available in Brussels?Yes