Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Dedication
- 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
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Dedication
- 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
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden , pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015