Peregrine Horden

Biographic Data

ID205514
NAMEPeregrine Horden
GIVEN NAMESPeregrine
FAMILY NAMEHorden
SIGNATUREHORDEN P
AFFILIATIONSRoyal Holloway University of London
ORCID0000-0001-8652-1816
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS82
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT79
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

    Guy Attewell, Patrizia Bassini et al.BOOKBody in Balance2022

    Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits “harmony” and “holism” as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion o…

  • Climate

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2022

    Climates change, but providing an overall narrative of those changes that respects local peculiarities is fraught with difficulty. The modern climate of the Mediterranean region and the Near East can be crudely summed up as a seasonal contrast of hot dry summers and mild wet winters. But, of course, there are major exceptions to that, both at the regional level and in the innumerable microclimates that become evident when the focus narrows to the…

  • Demography, Late Antiquity

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2022

    Across the ancient world there were probably fewer people in 700 ce than there had been in 300 ce . If there was “decline and fall,” it was demographic. However, there precision and agreement end. Since we cannot reliably estimate the aggregate population in any period of antiquity, we cannot give a rough order of magnitude to the decline, and estimates vary greatly (50 percent or more at the pessimistic end of the spectrum).

  • A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History, ed. Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenARTICLEThe English Historical Review2022

    Here is a collection of valuable studies that blend archival detail with wide comparative secondary reading, modest in scale and even in price, but with potentially wide ramifications. Global history is preached everywhere, and sometimes genuinely practised; maritime history is also in the ascendant. Yet maritime history has, editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal contend, been marginal in global history. The relationship between maritim…

  • The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium by Daniel Caner

    Peregrine HordenARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2022

    “Ta sa ek tōn sōn” (your things from your things) is inscribed on a sixth-century Byzantine chalice now in the Dumbarton Oaks collection in Washington D.C. It gnomically expresses the subject matter of Caner’s excellent new book. In what Caner calls “the first complex and affluent Christian society” (xix)—that is, Byzantium from the age of Constantine to the eve of the Islamic conquests—God’s merciful philanthropia (love of humanity), the Christi…

  • The Mediterranean Other - The other Mediterranean

    Cristina Balma-Tivola, Julia Blandfort et al.BOOKThe Mediterranean Other - The…2019

    Today, we particularly encounter the Mediterranean Other in the “refugee”. Scientific, political and public discourses on the Mediterranean are — continuously or most recently? — determined by hegemonial perspectives. Considering other perceptions, interpretations and representations seems to be impossible in light of financial crises, the new South, blurring borders and unclear securities. The contributions in this volume dispute this form of th…

  • On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500, by Barry Cunliffe

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenARTICLEThe English Historical Review2019

    ‘The sea, then, is an inspiration to humans: it cajoles and lures them into its presence and drives them on to great feats of achievement’ (p. v). The sea has clearly inspired and driven Sir Barry Cunliffe. Since at least the 1970s he has been an author not only of excavation reports for the specialist but of books for the general reader who wants further reading rather than footnotes. This century, he has favoured the general reader even more an…

  • Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity

    Peregrine HordenBOOKMusic as Medicine2017

    Contents: Introduction, Peregrine Horden Musical solutions: past and present in Music therapy, Peregrine Horden Part I: Ancient Literate Traditions: Commentary on part I with a note on China, Peregrine Horden Music therapy in antiquity, Martin West Jewish and Muslim traditions of music therapy, Amnon Shiloah Music therapy: some possibilities in the Indian tradition J.B. Katz Part II: Medieval Europe: Commentary on part II, with a note on the earl…

  • Music as Medicine

    Peregrine HordenBOOKMusic as Medicine2017

  • Commentary on Part III, with a Note on Paracelsus

    Peregrine HordenCHAPTERMusic as Medicine2017

    The development in question was the re-establishment in European thought of an integrated vision of music which embraced both ethos and cosmos. Music could have salutary effects on human beings because of its astrological significance as a mirror of the universe's 'deep structure'. Two currents within theorizing about music, the 'ethical' and the 'astrological', had come together in the Pythagorean-Platonic tradition in antiquity but had never be…

  • New Horizons: Mediterranean Research in the 21st Century

    Kristin Platt, Andreas Eckl et al.BOOKNew Horizons2016

  • Medieval Amalfi and its Diaspora, 800–1250, by Patricia Skinner

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenARTICLEThe English Historical Review2016

    ‘Merchants engaged in trade’, Benjamin of Tudela called the inhabitants of Amalfi in the twelfth century: merchants ‘who do not sow or reap because they dwell upon high hills and lofty crags, but buy everything for money’. Early medieval Amalfi has always been a puzzle. In standard accounts, it takes its place in the sequence of emerging seaports (Venice, Amalfi, Pisa, Genoa) whose fortunes signal the revival of trans-Mediterranean trade between …

  • Afterword

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenARTICLEpostmedieval a journal of…2016References: 3

  • Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease by James Kennaway (review)

    Peregrine HordenARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2015

    Reviewed by: Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease by James Kennaway Peregrine Horden James Kennaway. Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. xii + 213 pp. Ill. $119.95 (978-1-4094-2642-4). “Child!” Richard Wagner wrote to a friend in 1859, “this Tristan is becoming something terrible! The last Act!!! ... Perfectly good [performances] must drive peopl…

  • A Companion to Mediterranean History

    Open AccessPeregrine Horden, Sharon KinoshitaBOOKCompanion to Mediterranean History2014

  • Companion to Mediterranean History

    Peregrine Horden, Sharon KinoshitaBOOKCompanion to Mediterranean History2014

  • Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and their Business World, by Jessica L. Goldberg

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenARTICLEThe English Historical Review2014

    ‘I hope there is a letter from you on its way to me telling me what you have done. Please keep an eye on Qāsim and make sure of the goodness of the flax. He must not buy me medium quality. Furthermore, in God’s name, it’s on you not to pay him with defective dinars, so that we don’t get involved with him over this.’ At some point in the 1050s, ‘Ayyāsh in Fustat (Old Cairo) wrote thus to his associate Nahray, who was in a village of the Fayyūm reg…

  • The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe, by R.I. Moore

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenARTICLEThe English Historical Review2014

    Bob Moore’s latest monograph, a study of heresy in Europe c.1000–1300, though clearly innovative and thought-provoking, is a work hard to categorise and hence to review. With its titular allusion to the Bush ‘war on terror’, and with historiographical discussion and all but essential annotation relegated to a website (www.rimoore.net), it comes clothed as a work for the general reader (a reader needing to be told, in footnotes, who Cicero and Cha…

  • A Companion to Mediterranean History

    Peregrine Horden, Sharon KinoshitaBOOKCompanion to Mediterranean History2014

    A Companion to Mediterranean History presents a wide-ranging overview of this vibrant field of historical research, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the development of the region from Neolithic times to the present. Provides a valuable introduction to current debates on Mediterranean history and helps define the field for a new generation Covers developments in the Mediterranean world from Neolithic times to the mo…

  • Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

    Elisabeth Hsu, Peregrine HordenBOOKBody in Balance2013

  • Sabur ibn Sahl's Dispensatory in the Recension of the lhringAdudi Hospital * Edited and translated by Oliver Kahl

    Peregrine HordenARTICLEJournal of Islamic Studies2013

    Journal Article Sābūr ibn Sahl’s Dispensatory in the Recension of the ʿAḍudī HospitalEdited and translated by Oliver Kahl Get access Sābūr ibn Sahl’s Dispensatory in the Recension of the ʿAḍudī HospitalEdited and translated by Oliver Kahl (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2009 [Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science Texts and Studies, no. 78]), x + 265 pp. Price HB £86.00. EAN 978–9004171244. Peregrine Horden Peregrine Horden Royal Holloway, Unive…

  • Demography, Late Antiquity

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Across the ancient world there were probably fewer people in 700 CE than there were in 300 CE.

  • Climate

    Open AccessPeregrine HordenCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Climates change, as we know to our probable future cost; but establishing the history of those changes and of their effects on humanity is fraught with controversy at every turn.

  • Hopitaux au Moyen Age et aux Temps modernes: France, Allemagne et Italie: une histoire comparee

    Peregrine HordenARTICLEThe English Historical Review2010

    ‘Or if you please in charity to visit an Hospital’, wrote Jeremy Taylor in 1651, ‘which is indeed a map of the whole world, there you shall see the effects of Adams sin and the ruines of humane nature, bodies laid up in heaps ... men whose souls seem to be borrowed, and are kept there by art and the force of Medicine’. Historians of the later middle ages and early modern period in Europe have responded with ever increasing energy to the opportuni…

  • Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World

    Peregrine HordenARTICLEThe English Historical Review2010

    For Gibbon, as for Burke, one maxim of extended empire was ‘a wise and salutary neglect’. That was the Roman way. A contrary imperial necessity emerged, however, when Gibbon turned from the Romans to the barbarians and their despotisms: ‘a swift and easy communication with the extreme parts’. Gibbon would have learned much about both Roman and medieval empires and their contacts with their provinces from Adam Silverstein's book; and he would have…