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Chapter 13 - Healing Gifts

The Role of Diplomatic Gift Exchange in the Movement of Materia Medica between the Byzantine and Islamicate Worlds

from Part II - The Borders of Pharmacology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

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Koray Durak
Edited by
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos  and
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Affiliation:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Affiliation:
University of Cyprus
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Summary

This chapter examines the medieval Greek and Arabic sources for the movement of medical substances between the Byzantine and Islamic worlds in the period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. Although commerce was the most common means employed in the movement of materia medica, and the part played by tribute taking and looting was not negligible, the role of diplomatic gift exchange cannot be ignored. A relatively wide range of drugs were exchanged, ranging from theriac and a stone against dropsy to spices and perfumes. Moreover, this chapter examines the peculiar role of drugs as gifts in diplomatic communication compared to more typical diplomatic gifts such as expensive textiles and luxurious objects. Not suited to acting as objects of display, materia medica seemed to convey a personal message of care, creating mutual ties between the sender and the recipient.

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diplomacymodes of exchangegiftmateria medicaaromaticsperfumemiddle Byzantine periodByzantine-Islamic relationsAbbasidsByzantine court
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Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean
Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge
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