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
PETER MURRAY JONES is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK.
A welcome contribution to the growing body of scholarship on early
medical, scientific and other utilitarian texts. [...] The topic is
both timely and important for the field of Medieval Studies which
has, in recent decades, witnessed a renewed interest in utilitarian
prose as a relatively untapped source of insight into the
period.
*ENGLISH STUDIES*
This fascinating history shows how theories of health and disease
evolved in the interplay of Western, Byzantine, and Arabic
medicines and the relationship with the natural world.
*AMERICAN HERB ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY*
This collection is [...] extremely welcome, not only in that it
fills what might be a rather obvious gap in the literature, but
also for bringing to the task some of the biggest names in medieval
medicine. I recommend the collection as a whole not only to
medievalists (both early and late), but to anyone who may believe
that the classical legacy was neglected or unknown until humanists
rediscovered it, and to all those interested in plant-based
medicine.
*MEDICAL HISTORY*
[A] fascinating collection. [...] On many different levels it opens
up a new world of the association of plants to medicine.
*BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE on-line review*
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