| Contents |
Introduction / Alaine Touwaide and Peter Dendle -- 1. The legacy of classical antiquity in Byzantium and the West / Alain Touwaide -- 2. Plants and planets : linking the vegetable with the celestial in late- medieval texts / Linda Ehrsam Voigts -- 3. Plants in the early medieval cosmos : herbs, divine potency, and the scala natura / Peter Dendle -- 4. A cook's therapeutic use of garden herbs / Terence Scully -- 5. The jujube tree in the Eastern Mediterranean : a case study in the methodology of textual archeobotany / Alain Touwaide -- 6. Gardens on Vellum : plants and herbs in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / Maria Amalia D'Aronco -- 7. The sources for plant names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud herbal glossary / Philip G. Rusche -- 8. Anglo-Saxon ethnobotany : women's feproductive medicine in Leechbook III / Marijane Osborn -- 9. Herbs and the medieval surgeon / Peter Murray Jones -- 10. Rosemary : not just for rememberance / George R. Keiser -- 11. Utility and aesthetics in the gardens of al-Andalus : species with multiple uses / Expiracion Garcia Sanchez -- 12. Hortus redivivus : the medieval garden recreated / Deirdre Larkin. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2008299371 |
| ISBN | 9781843833635 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1843833638 (alk. paper) |
