"28" Result
Sort By:
Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places of refinement, learning and luxury, and also of corruption, rivalry and murder. Surrounded by courtiers of varying loy…
The illuminated Tacuinum Sanitatis from northern Italy is the most important family of late fourteenth-century health handbooks. The handbooks are based on the Latin translation of an Arabic health treatise from the eleventh century, the Taqwim al-sihha by Ibn Butlan, which trea…