Paper delivered by Matteo Martelli at the International Conference Drugs in the Medieval World (ca. 1050-ca. 1400), organized by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Dionysios Stathakopoulos.
December 1-8, 2018, King’s College, London
The AlchemEast project is devoted to the study of alchemical theory and practice as it appeared and developed in distinct, albeit contiguous (both chronologically and geographically) areas: Graeco-Roman Egypt, Byzantium, and the Near East, from Ancient Babylonian times to the early Islamic Period.