Health and healing from the medieval garden /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell, 2008.
Description:	xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Materia Medica -- history. Botany -- history. History, Ancient. History, Medieval. Phytotherapy -- history. Plants, Medicinal. Materia medica, Vegetable -- History -- To 1500. Botany, Medical -- History -- To 1500. Medicinal plants -- History -- To 1500. Botany, Medical. Materia medica, Vegetable. Medicinal plants. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7136326

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Other authors / contributors:	Dendle, Peter, 1968- Touwaide, Alain.
ISBN:	9781843833635 (alk. paper) 1843833638 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	This title looks at 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.

Table of Contents:

List of Plates
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Legacy of Classical Antiquity in Byzantium 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 Glossary
8. 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

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