Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dendle, Peter; Touwaide, Alain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.

The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine, is the focus of this new collection. Following a general introduction and a background chapter on Late Antique and medieval theories of wellness and therapy, in-depth essays treat such wide-ranging topics as medicine and astrology, charms and magical remedies, herbal glossaries, illuminated medical manuscripts, women's reproductive medicine, dietary cooking, gardens in social and political context, and recreated medieval gardens. They make a significant contribution to our understanding ofthe place of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice, and thus lead to a greater appreciation of how medieval theories and therapies from diverse places developed in continuously evolving and cross-pollinating strands,and, in turn, how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion, identity, and the human relationship with the natural world.

CONTRIBUTORS: ALAIN TOUWAIDE, LINDA EHRSAM VOIGTS, PETER DENDLE, TERENCE SCULLY, MARIA AMALIA D'ARONCO, PHILIP G. RUSCHE, MARIJANE OSBORN, PETER MURRAY JONES, GEORGE R. KEISER, EXPIRACION GARCIA SANCHEZ, DEIRDRE LARKIN

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782044215
• Artikelnr.: 56407085

Autorenporträt

Peter Dendle, Alain Touwaide

Inhaltsangabe

The Legacy of Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and the West
Alain Touwaide Plants and Planets: Linking the Vegetable with the Celestial in Late
Medieval Texts
Linda Ehrsam Voigts Plants in the Early Medieval Cosmos: Herbs, Divine Potency, and the Scala natura
Peter Dendle A Cook's Therapeutic Use of Garden Herbs
Terence Scully The Jujube
Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study in the Methodolo gy of Textual Archaobotany
Alain Touwaide Gardens on Vellum: Plants and Herbs in Anglo
Saxon Manuscripts
Maria D'Aronco The Sources for Plant Names in Anglo
Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary
Philip Rusche Anglo
Saxon Ethnobotany: Women's Reproductive medicine in Leechbook III
Marijane Osborn Herbs and the Medieval Surgeon
Peter Murray Jones Rosemary: Not Just for Rememberance
George R. Keiser Utility and Aesthetics in the Gardens of al
Andalus: Species with Multiple Uses
Expiración García Sánchez Hortus Redivivus: The Medieval Garden Recreated
Deirdre Larkin