MAT-MED in Transit · MAT-MED Materia Medica in Transit. The Transforming Knowledge of Healing Plants
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2019-10-01 → 2022-12-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 251 003 €
- Участници
- 2
- Схема
- MSCA-IF
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Накратко на български
Разпространението на знания за лечебни растения, като местни и екзотични видове, се проследява в Италия между XV и XVII век. Анализът на книги и архиви помага да се разбере как информацията е преминавала както между лекари, така и сред обикновените хора.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
MAT-MED Materia Medica in Transit. The Transforming Knowledge of Healing Plants
'Materia medica' is a Latin expression meaning the body of knowledge about the medicinal properties of plants, of certain animals and minerals - the so-called 'simples' - that constitute the raw material for the preparation of medicinal remedies. The locution derives from the Latin title of the massive compilation put together in the 1st century AD by the physician Pedanius Dioscorides (original language: Greek; Latin translation: De Materia Medica). The main purpose of MAT-MED in Transit is to trace the Italian circulation of knowledge about local and exotic medicinal plants between the late 15th and early 17th century. Despite its slow commercial decline, Venice is a good vantage point, because it continued to be an important centre for the circulation of 'simples' and related knowledge. This circulation, which is a segment of the more global transit of 'materia medica' between European countries and between Europe and the West and East Indies, took place both at the level of professional figures (physicians, apothecaries) and at the level of more common people, whose role is usually more difficult to trace and often dismissed by scholars as an exercise in empiricism and quackery. MAT-MED in Transit demonstrates the social transversality of this circulation and the strong involvement of ordinary people as well, in the 16th century at its peak, only to decrease in the following century. Clear signs of this are the continuously growing production of Italian printed books on the 'materia medica' and the survival of numerous manuscript herbals. These, together with archive documents, are the main sources of this project, studied with an interdisciplinary approach that interweaves book history and history of science. The ultimate aim of MAT-MED in Transit is to raise our current awareness of the value of nature as a resource in our everyday lives. To this end, during 2022 I have designed a number of specific activities and research products (exhibition, board game, videos).
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
The MAT-MED in Transit project focuses on the circulation of scientific knowledge related to the medicinal virtues of 'simples' (mainly plants) in early modern Italy through archival records and an in-depth study of two vernacular textual genres, herbals and recipe books, produced both in manuscript and printed form between the 16th and the early 17th centuries.The project will reconstruct the use of plants/substances with the awareness that Italy represents a segment of the more global transit of medical matter between European countries and between Europe and the West and East Indies. MAT-MED in Transit aims to ascertain who were the consumers of the huge production of printed books and manuscripts of vernacular Materia Medica and the women's role in this process of appropriation; why and how, not only professionals but ordinary people, read books and penned manuscripts on local and exotic Materia Medica; how the circulation and use of Materia Medica affected their practices of healing and the underlying theoretical framework.Through a novel interdisciplinary approach that builds on the applicant’s dual expertise in History of Medicine and Book History, MAT-MED in Transit looks at the past Materia Medica with the ultimate aim of raising current awareness of the value of Nature as a resource for our everyday life.A close collaboration between the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Brown University, the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and the new Ca’ Foscari’s Center for Digital Research in Humanities, will allow the creation of innovative digital tools that can be supplemented in the future by other European sources, with the goal of exploring new digital methods for historical research.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaКоординаторИталия
- BROWN UNIVERSITY · Providence, RiСъединени щати
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз