Premodern Plants

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-46408-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 123 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 285 mm, Gewicht: 595 g

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 ; naming in premodern herbals; gathering prayers; vegetal decay in the prose romance ; 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nardizzi, Vin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Editor's introduction.- 2. ‘Farewel my bok’: Paying attention to flowers in Chaucer’s prologues to - 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 .- 7. Before and after plants.- 8. Libertine botany: Vegetal sexualities, vegetal forms.- 9. Centerpieces.- 10. Writing with plants.- 11. Is Dante a cosmopolitan?

Über Autor(innen)

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