The Green Middle Ages : The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600

The Green Middle Ages The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600

How ‘green’ were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The population size was many times smaller than today and human impact on nature not as extreme as it is now. People did not have to worry about issues like...

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Otros Autores: As-Vijvers, Anne Margreet W., contributor (contributor), Bergen, Saskia Van, contributor (editor), Biemans, Jos A.A.M., contributor, Briët, Jan Willem, contributor, Chavannes-Mazel, Claudine A., contributor, Chavannes-Mazel, Claudine, editor, Dijkema, Annabel, contributor, Ellers, Iris, contributor, IJpelaar, Linda, editor, Ijpelaar, Linda, contributor, Leeflang, Micha, contributor, Mulders, Esther, contributor, Thijsse, Gerard, contributor, Uffelen, Gerda van, contributor, Winter, Johanna Maria van, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Clavis kunsthistorische monografieën.
Materias:
Botany > Europe > History > To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Nature and civilization > Europe > History > To 1500.
Plants and civilization > Europe > History > To 1500.
HISTORY / Medieval.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009724840106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PART I CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS: FROM HERBARIUM PICTUM TO HERBARIUM VIVUM
  • Introduction. Early Writings on Beneficial Plants: Perceptions and Prescriptions. The Web of Written and Illustrated Plant Books from Antiquity to the Invention of the Printing Press
  • 1 FROM COPY TO COPY 1500 YEARS OF PLANT ILLUSTRATION: THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION
  • 2 EARLY PRINTED HERBARIA A BRIEF OUTLINE BASED ON THE EXAMPLES FROM THE LIBERNA COLLECTION
  • 3 ‘EVERLASTING GARDENS’ ORIGIN, PURPOSE, SPREAD AND USE OF THE FIRST HERBARIA
  • PART II THE USE OF PLANTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • 4 PAINTING WITH PLANTS THE USE OF VEGETAL PAINTS IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
  • 5 NAMING NAMES PLANTS IN THE AGE OF CHARLEMAGNE
  • 6 THE LONG SHADOW OF ANTIQUITY MEDICINE AND PLANTS
  • 7 ‘THE COOK IS THE BEST DOCTOR’ PLANTS FOR FOOD AND HEALTH: RECIPES AND PRESCRIPTIONS
  • PART III PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
  • 8 ‘AND IT GREW AND WAXED A GREAT TREE’ A SHORT SURVEY OF PLANTS IN THE BIBLE
  • 9 GOOD TREES, BAD TREES BIBLICAL TREE AND PLANT SYMBOLISM IN THE LIBER FLORIDUS
  • 10 THE HERBAL BOOK IN JACOB VAN MAERLANT’S DER NATUREN BLOEME
  • 11 PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE A THORNY ROSE BUSH AND OTHER GREENERY LOVE, LUST AND SUFFERING IN THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE
  • PART IV PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL BOOK DECORATION
  • 12 NAMING THE FLOWERS AND PLANTS IN THE MARGINS OF LATE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
  • 13 FLOWERING MARGINS THE DEVELOPMENT OF STREWN-FLOWER BORDERS IN SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION
  • 14 FLOWERS OF MEANING THE INTERPRETATION OF MARGINAL DECORATION IN SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH MANUSCRIPTS FROM AROUND 1500
  • APPENDIX
  • Appendix I: A Hand-written Text from Late Antiquity in the Leiden University Library. The Wonders of Plantain in Apuleius Platonicus’ herbarium (Leiden, UB ms VLQ 9)
  • Appendix II: A Late Medieval Printed Text in the Athenaeum Library in Deventer. Recipes in a Herb Book from 1497, the Ortus sanitatis (Deventer, AB 2000 E 45 KL)
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS CITED AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS
  • INDEX OF INDIVIDUALS (AUTHORS, PATRONS, MAKERS AND OWNERS OF HERBARIA, ARTISTS, PRINTERS) TITLES (BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, HERBARIA) AND PLANTS IN CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF ENGLISH PLANT NAMES
  • LATIN NAMES FOR MEDIEVAL PLANT NAMES
  • INDEX OF LATIN PLANT NAMES
  • INDEX OF MEDIEVAL LATIN AND GREEK PLANT NAMES (ITALICS) AND (OLD) DUTCH (D.), GERMAN (G.) AND FRENCH (FR.) NAMES (ROMAN)
  • COLOPHON

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