Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Surrounding Forest
- 1 Mother Earth, Sister Moon and the Great Forest of Tāne
- 2 Beowulf’s Foliate Margins: The Surrounding Forest in Early Medieval England
- 3 Bone, Stone, Wood: Encountering Material Ecologies in Early Medieval Sculpture
- 4 ‘Mervoillous fu li engineres que croix fist de fust, non de pierre’: Materiality and Vernacular Theology in the Wood of the Cross Legend
- 5 The Evolution of Relational Tree-Diagrams from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Century: Visual Devices and Models of Knowledge
- 6 From Forest to Orchard: Arboreal Areas as Mnemotechnic Supports in the Middle Ages
- 7 The Vegetal Imaginary in Exemplary Literature: The Case of the Ci nous dit
- 8 Adam’s Sister: Tree Symbolism in Premodern Mystical Islamic Cosmology
- Concluding Reflections
- Appendix: Further Reading
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Surrounding Forest
- 1 Mother Earth, Sister Moon and the Great Forest of Tāne
- 2 Beowulf’s Foliate Margins: The Surrounding Forest in Early Medieval England
- 3 Bone, Stone, Wood: Encountering Material Ecologies in Early Medieval Sculpture
- 4 ‘Mervoillous fu li engineres que croix fist de fust, non de pierre’: Materiality and Vernacular Theology in the Wood of the Cross Legend
- 5 The Evolution of Relational Tree-Diagrams from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Century: Visual Devices and Models of Knowledge
- 6 From Forest to Orchard: Arboreal Areas as Mnemotechnic Supports in the Middle Ages
- 7 The Vegetal Imaginary in Exemplary Literature: The Case of the Ci nous dit
- 8 Adam’s Sister: Tree Symbolism in Premodern Mystical Islamic Cosmology
- Concluding Reflections
- Appendix: Further Reading
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle AgesComparative Contexts, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2024