Premodern Plants
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Beschreibung
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 Legend of Good Women; naming in premodern herbals; gathering prayers; vegetal decay in the prose romance Perceforest; 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.
Previously published in postmedieval Volume 9, issue 4, November 2018.
Vin Nardizzi is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
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 Legend of Good Women; naming in premodern herbals; gathering prayers; vegetal decay in the prose romance Perceforest; 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.
Explores premodern plants as they appear in medieval literature Considers the position of critical plant studies Interrogates a variety of primary sources, from Chaucer to medieval grafting treatises
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Vin Nardizzi
Themen in »Premodern Plants«
environment taxonomy critical theory herbariums medicine medieval studies medieval history