By Anne-Marie Millim, Konstantina Georganta, Fabienne Collignon
ISBN-10: 1443804940
ISBN-13: 9781443804943
'The Apothecary's Chest: Magic, paintings and medicine' used to be a one-day symposium held on the college of Glasgow on November 24, 2007. The symposium known as for a dialogue at the evolution of the notions of mysticism, wisdom and superstition within the means they're intertwined in either technological know-how and the literary mind's eye within the determine of healers resembling the apothecary, the alchemist, the shaman. there have been 3 major parts of curiosity. the 1st concerned conventional perceptions of physicians, who mixed wisdom and superstition and therefore bordered, of their practices, at the sphere of the occult. the second one topic, evolving from the 1st, proposed an inquiry of the overlapping pursuits and procedures of technological know-how, magic and prophesy, in addition to of the results and results of a privileged entry to scientific wisdom, whereas the 3rd topic of dialogue targeting the advance of the symbolism of the healer in literature, historical past, philosophy of technology, anthropology, theology, movie and artwork. The twelve papers integrated during this quantity, papers offered through doctoral applicants and younger students from throughout quite a number nation-states and disciplines, bring about a suite of ways to an investigative box with issues starting from mystical qualities of mundane fabrics to the origins of the occult and gender struggles. The 13th and ultimate essay integrated within the quantity, Professor invoice Herbert's "From Mere Bellies to the undesirable Shaman", is an exploration of the fashionable position of the modern poet within the kind of a longer dialog initiated on the final of the convention, while Professor Herbert was once requested to mix a poetry examining with a number of observations at the courting among the poet and the shaman.