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Health and healing from the medieval garden /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Plates; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1the legacy of Classical antiquity inByzantium and the West; 2 Plants and Planets: Linking the Vegetable with the Celestial in Late Medieval Texts; 3 Plants in the Early Medieval Cosmos: Herbs, Divine Potency, and the Scala natura; 4 A Cook's Therapeutic Use of Garden Herbs; 5 The Jujube Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study in the Methodology of Textual Archeobotany; 6 Gardens on Vellum: Plants and Herbs in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.
- 7 The Sources for Plant Names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary8 Anglo-Saxon Ethnobotany: Women's Reproductive Medicine in Leechbook III; 9 Herbs and the Medieval Surgeon; 10 Rosemary: Not Just for Remembrance; 11 Utility and Aesthetics in the Gardens of al-Andalus: Species with Multiple Uses; 12 Hortus Redivivus: The Medieval Garden Recreated; Index of Manuscripts; General Index; Backcover.