Paulina B Lewicka
Biographic Data
| ID | 6445119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paulina B Lewicka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paulina B |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewicka |
| SIGNATURE | LEWICKA P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diet as Culture. On the Medical Context of Food Consumption in the Medieval Middle East
Greco‐Arabic medicine was based on ancient Greek foundations, or more precisely, on the Galenic doctrine of humoral pathology, which conditioned both the preventive and curative proper diet. This doctrine had been imported into the Arabic‐Islamic world in the course of the eighth and ninth centuries, when Nestorian Christians, sponsored by the elites of early‐Abbasid Baghdad, translated the ancient Greek legacy into Arabic. With time, Galenic tho…
Restaurants, Inns and Taverns That Never Were
The article shows that, contrary to a commonly accepted assumption, no public consumption facilities such as restaurants, taverns or inns existed in medieval Cairo. This was caused on the one hand by the Egyptians' faithfulness to their own ancient practices and their indifference to pre-Islamic influences of foreign origin, and on the other by the Cairenes' compliance with the ordinances of the legal sources of Islam. These two factors led to th…
Diet as Culture. On the Medical Context of Food Consumption in the Medieval Middle East
Greco‐Arabic medicine was based on ancient Greek foundations, or more precisely, on the Galenic doctrine of humoral pathology, which conditioned both the preventive and curative proper diet. This doctrine had been imported into the Arabic‐Islamic world in the course of the eighth and ninth centuries, when Nestorian Christians, sponsored by the elites of early‐Abbasid Baghdad, translated the ancient Greek legacy into Arabic. With time, Galenic tho…
Restaurants, Inns and Taverns That Never Were
The article shows that, contrary to a commonly accepted assumption, no public consumption facilities such as restaurants, taverns or inns existed in medieval Cairo. This was caused on the one hand by the Egyptians' faithfulness to their own ancient practices and their indifference to pre-Islamic influences of foreign origin, and on the other by the Cairenes' compliance with the ordinances of the legal sources of Islam. These two factors led to th…
Diet as Culture. On the Medical Context of Food Consumption in the Medieval Middle East
Greco‐Arabic medicine was based on ancient Greek foundations, or more precisely, on the Galenic doctrine of humoral pathology, which conditioned both the preventive and curative proper diet. This doctrine had been imported into the Arabic‐Islamic world in the course of the eighth and ninth centuries, when Nestorian Christians, sponsored by the elites of early‐Abbasid Baghdad, translated the ancient Greek legacy into Arabic. With time, Galenic tho…
Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Arabic (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Classics (1 work)