The Medicina Plinii: Latin Text, Translation, and Commentary - Paperback

by Yvette Hunt (Author)

This book presents the first ever English translation of the Medicina Plinii, one of the most influential books of applied medicine and self-medication in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Author Biography

Yvette Hunt is Honorary Research Fellow within the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at The University of Queensland. She completed her PhD there in 2013. Among her research interests are ancient medicine and toxicology and their reception in the medieval period, ancient magic, and public entertainment in the Roman period along with the policies which regulated it. In the field of ancient medicine, Yvette has previously published a paper addressing the reception of Dioscorides: "Bang for his buck: Dioscorides as a gift of the tenth-century Byzantine court", in Byzantine Culture in Translation, (edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil).