Manuscripts, Plants, Remedies in the Mediterranean Traditions.Studies across Disciplines for Alain Touwaide. Volume 2: Plants. Botany, Gardens, Materia Medica, Ethnophyramacology. 2025. (Medical Traditions, 6:2). 78 (65 col.) figs. XVI,698 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Due May 2025. Orders will be recorded.

The essays, penned by 80 international scholars and researchers and written in six languages, are grouped into three broad categories—Manuscripts, Plants, and Remedies—to reflect Alain’s main areas of research. Each category is broken into subgroups, such as manuscripts, texts, and science; botany; gardens, materia medica, pharmacy, drugs, archaeology, medical traditions, and continuity of scientific knowledge in the East and West. The papers reach across many fields of scholarship, science, and medicine and are, necessarily and fundamentally, trans-disciplinary, trans-chronological, and trans-geographic. These volumes are not so much a Festschrift as an approach to Alain’s work through many disciplines and methods, a discussion of the current status of each field, and an opening into new perspective.