Sarah Neville

Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade

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Produktbeschreibung

In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9781316515990
• ISBN-10: 1316515990
• Artikelnr.: 62308011

Autorenporträt

Sarah Neville is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University. She is an assistant editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare and an associate co-ordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Milton's trees
Introduction. Authorizing English botany
Part I. A History of Herbals: 1. Authorship, book history, and the effects of artifacts
2. The stationers' company and constraints on English printing
3. Salubrious illustration and the economics of English herbals
Part II. Anonymity in the Printed English Herbal: 4. Reframing competition: the curious case of the little Herball
5. The Grete Herball and evidence in the margins
6. 'Unpublished virtues of the earth': books of healing on the English renaissance stage
Part III. Authors and the Printed English Herbal: 7. William Turner and the medical book trade
8. John Norton and the redemption of John Gerard.