She will give birth immediately: pregnancy and childbirth in medieval Hebrew medical texts produced in the Mediterranean West

Navas, Carmen Caballero

doi:10.4321/s0211-95362014000200006

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“…From the tenth century onward, several Jewish individuals or even whole 'dynasties' of Jewish physicians were linked to courts of Muslim rulers and other elite families. 87 Besides this greater social mobility, medicine also was an area of intensive contact with few restrictions in which Jews, Muslims, and Christians became each other's masters, students, 83 For major studies and edition/translation of relevant texts, see Barkai , 1998 Navas 2006Navas , 2008Navas ,2013Navas , and 2014. On ideas about generation, see Fontaine 1994.…”

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Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

2021

Episteme in Bewegung Beiträge Zu Einer Transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte

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Since its inception in July 2012, the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", based at the Freie Universität Berlin, has been engaging with processes of knowledge change in premodern European and non-European cultures.The project aims at a fundamentally new approach to the historiography of knowledge in premodern cultures. Modern scholars have frequently described premodern knowledge as static and stable, bound by tradition and highly dependent on authority, and this is a view that was often held within premodern cultures themselves.More often than not, modern approaches to the history of premodern knowledge have been informed by historiographical notions such as 'rupture' or 'revolution', as well as by concepts of periodization explicitly or implicitly linked to a master narrative of progress.Frequently, only a limited capacity for epistemic change and, what is more, only a limited ability to reflect on shifts in knowledge were attributed to premodern cultures, just as they were denied most forms of historical consciousness, and especially so with respect to knowledge change. In contrast, the CRC 980 seeks to demonstrate that premodern processes of knowledge change were characterised by constant flux, as well as by constant self-reflexion. These epistemic shifts and reflexions were subject to their very own dynamics, and played out in patterns that were much more complex than traditional accounts of knowledge change would have us believe.In order to describe and conceptualise these processes of epistemic change, the CRC 980 has developed a notion of 'episteme' which encompasses 'knowledge' as well as 'scholarship' and 'science', defining knowledge as the 'knowledge of something', and thus as knowledge which stakes a claim to validity. Such claims to validity are not necessarily expressed in terms of explicit reflexion, however -rather, they constitute themselves, and are reflected, in particular practices, institutions and modes of representation, as well as in specific aesthetic and performative strategies.In addition to this, the CRC 980 deploys a specially adapted notion of 'transfer' centred on the re-contextualisation of knowledge. Here, transfer is not understood as a mere movement from A to B, but rather in terms of intricately entangled processes of exchange that stay in motion through iteration even if, at first glance, they appear to remain in a state of stasis. In fact, actions ostensibly geared towards the transmission, fixation, canonisation and codification of a certain level of knowledge prove particularly conducive to constant epistemic change. VI PrefaceIn collaboration with the publishing house Harrassowitz the CRC has initiated the series "Episteme in Motion. Contributions to a Transdisciplinary History of Knowledge" with a view to showcase the project's research results and to render them accessible to a wider scholarly audience. The volumes published in this series represent the full scope of colla...

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confidence: 99%

“…On women, see esp. Friedenwald 1944Caballero Navas 2008;Green and Smail 2008. ian translation movement from Latin and Arabic, lived in Rome and Northern Italy.…”

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Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

2021

Episteme in Bewegung Beiträge Zu Einer Transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte

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Monstrous animal siblings in Europe

Ermacora

2022

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Reports of women giving birth to a baby together with an animal (toad, mouse, bird, etc.), are documented in Europe from the 1100s onwards: the most important traditions of which are the frater Salernitanorum and the sooterkin. Throughout the centuries, authors have typically attempted to explain monstrous animal siblings in the light of contemporary medical knowledge. The present paper compares the medieval frater Salernitanorum with the later sooterkin and investigates both in historico-folklore terms. It argues that it is important to understand monstrous birth traditions not only in the light of medical history, but as beliefs and narratives actively shared through acts of communication. In so doing, this article is informed by both the history of medicine and folklore studies.

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Del árabe al hebreo. El nacimiento de la ginecología hebrea medieval y el Canon de la medicina de Ibn Sīnā

Navas

2019

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Este artículo pretende demostrar que el Zijrón ha-ḥolayim ha-hovim be-klé ha-herayón (Memoria de las enfermedades que afectan a los órganos de la reproducción) –un breve tratado anónimo dedicado a las enfermedades de los órganos genitales de hombres y mujeres, escrito en hebreo en Castilla a fines del siglo xii o principios del XIII– es un epítome de los funūn 20 y 21 del Libro III del Canon de la medicina de Ibn Sīnā, realizado directamente desde la lengua árabe varias décadas antes de su primera traducción conocida al hebreo. Para ello se ha llevado a cabo el cotejo preliminar del único manuscrito en que se conserva el tratado y varios testigos en hebreo y latín del Canon, y se ha analizado su producción en el contexto de los movimientos de traducción, apropiación y difusión de conocimiento médico de la Castilla multicultural y plurilingüe de los siglos XII al XIV. También se ha examinado el lugar que ocupa el Zijrón en el corpus hebreo dedicado al cuidado de la salud femenina, y se ha indagado sobre su difusión en el siglo XV, en el marco del nuevo interés que despertó la ginecología entre los autores y consumidores de literatura médica de la Europa bajomedieval.

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She will give birth immediately: pregnancy and childbirth in medieval Hebrew medical texts produced in the Mediterranean West

Cited by 3 publications

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Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

Monstrous animal siblings in Europe

Del árabe al hebreo. El nacimiento de la ginecología hebrea medieval y el Canon de la medicina de Ibn Sīnā

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