{"id":3271,"date":"2025-10-30T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:26:09","slug":"polyphonic-remedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/polyphonic-remedies\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyphonic Remedies: Mind and Body in the Kyranides"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>StoryPharm Blog 5 (October 2025)<\/strong><br \/>\nElena Schoretsaniti (Lund University) investigates the <em>Kyranides<\/em>, a late antique treatise on medical magic, as a polyphonic text where medicine, ritual, and language converge. Through the lens of James Paul Gee\u2019s concept of social languages, she reveals how scientific, magico-religious, popular, and anecdotal registers coexist to communicate authority and healing. Addressing both mental illness and cosmetics, the study shows how the <em>Kyranides<\/em> speaks in multiple voices\u2014of physician, priest, and storyteller\u2014where words themselves become remedies that heal both mind and body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":3272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"modified_by":"pavlosmi","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 08:00:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}