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Fw: CONFERENCES: On the history of the "herbal" in the Near East

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Davide Ermacora <[log in to unmask]>

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From Babylon to Baghdad:
Retracing the history of the “herbal” in the Near East

An international conférence
sponsored by the ERC “Floriental” Project (ERC-2010-StG 263783)
at the French CNRS (UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée)

14 November 2013, at the Institut catholique de Paris
21, rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris

The “herbal” – that genre of text that consists of lists of plants,
accompanied (for example) by descriptions of their medicinal and
therapeutic properties – has a curious history in the Near East. On
the one hand, a case can be made that the very first herbals in
history were elaborated and set down in writing in the Near East,
perhaps already in the 3rd millennium BCE. Moreover, these early
herbals in Mesopotamian cuneiform script were not ephemeral
short-lived experiments, but forerunners to a long-lived and
remarkably conservative scribal tradition still cultivated by
Babylonian scholars in the Seleucid era, thousands of years later. On
the other hand, however, at the other end of Antiquity, in Baghdad of
the 9th century CE, when the ‘Abbasid caliphs were seeking to gather
and translate into Arabic the known natural sciences, it was not
local, indigenous Mesopotamian learning that was sought after, but
rather imported Greek herbal lore from the writings of authors such as
Dioscorides, Galen, and Hippocrates, amongst others. Indeed, even the
very existence of a local and indigenous scholarly tradition of
written herbal lore seems to have been forgotten.

The “Floriental” project, hosted by the French CNRS since 2011 in the
“Orient & Méditerranée” laboratory (UMR 8167) and financed by the
European Research Council, proposes to trace the history of the
“herbal” as a textual genre in the Near East from its earliest
manifestations up until the work of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq in the 9th
century CE.

An international conference, surveying early project results and
prospects for the study of the history of ancient “herbals”, will take
place in Paris on November 12-14, 2013.


The program is available here: <http://filez.udr1.cnrs.fr/y5slx2bj>.

A brief presentation of the Floriental projet may be found on the
website of the “Orient & Méditerranée” laboratory:
<http://www.orient-mediterranee.com/spip.php?article1136&lang=fr>.


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De Babylone à Bagdad :
Retracer l’histoire de « l’herbier » au Proche-Orient

Colloque international
dans le cadre du projet européen
“Floriental” (ERC-2010-StG 263783)
hébergé au CNRS (UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée)

12-14 novembre 2013 • Institut catholique de Paris
21, rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris

« L’herbier » – ce genre textuel constitué de listes de plantes,
accompagnées, par exemple, d’une description de leurs propriétés
médicinales et thérapeutiques – témoigne d’une curieuse histoire au
Proche-Orient ancien. Les premiers herbiers y furent élaborés
probablement déjà au IIIe millénaire avant notre ère en cunéiforme
mésopotamien ; il s’agit alors de véritables précurseurs à l’origine
d’une longue tradition écrite toujours entretenue par les érudits
mésopotamiens de l’époque séleucide, des milliers d’années après leurs
premiers balbutiements. Or, à l’extrême fin de l’Antiquité, dans le
Bagdad du IXe siècle de notre ère, lorsque les califes abbasides
s’attachèrent à collecter et faire traduire en arabe les savoirs
scientifiques, ce n’est pas à l’ancienne tradition autochtone
mésopotamienne qu’ils pensèrent mais plutôt aux écrits importés
d’auteurs grecs tels que Dioscoride ou Galien, comme si l’existence
même d’un savoir scientifique local et indigène avait été oublié.

Le programme européen « FLORIENTAL », hébergé par le CNRS depuis 2011
au sein du laboratoire « Orient & Méditerranée » (UMR 8167) et financé
par le Conseil européen de la recherche, se propose de retracer
l’histoire du genre littéraire de « l’herbier » au Proche-Orient
depuis ses origines au IIIe millénaire avant notre ère jusqu’au
travail de Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq au IXe siècle de notre ère.

Un colloque présentant un premier bilan des recherches sur l’histoire
des « herbiers » anciens aura lieu à Paris les 12-14 novembre 2013.

Le programme est disponible ici :
http://filez.udr1.cnrs.fr/y5slx2bj

Une présentation brève du projet Floriental se trouve sur le site du
laboratoire « Orient & Méditerranée » :
http://www.orient-mediterranee.com/spip.php?article1136&lang=fr

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