Premodern Plants

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This book gathers essays on premodern plants, considering the position of critical plant studies in relation to medieval studies. Contributions cover topics including the significance of the daisy in the two Prologues to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; naming in premodern herbals; gathering prayers; vegetal decay in the prose romance Perceforest; the futurity of plants as they ripen and then rot; and vegetal life in libertine science and literature from the seventeenth century. Taken together, they provide a thoughtful reflection on premodern plants.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-12-27
Mått:210 x 279 x 13 mm
Vikt:595 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:123
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031464089

Utforska kategorier

Växtböcker inom Djur och Natur
Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Botanik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Vin Nardizzi is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Editor's introduction.- 2. ‘Farewel my bok’: Paying attention to flowers in Chaucer’s prologues to The Legend of Good Women.- 3. Vegetal continuity and the naming of species.- 4. The sacrificial herb: Gathering prayers in medieval pharmacy.- 5. Written in trees.- 6. Fruit and rot: Vegetal theology in Perceforest.- 7. Before and after plants.- 8. Libertine botany: Vegetal sexualities, vegetal forms.- 9. Centerpieces.- 10. Writing with plants.- 11. Is Dante a cosmopolitan?