Health and healing from the medieval garden. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Dendle, Alain Touwaide.
• Other Names: Dendle, Peter, 1968-; Touwaide, Alain
• Contents: Frontcover; Contents; List of Plates; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1the legacy of Classical antiquity inByzantium 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 Glossary8 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; Backcover.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 615.3210902; Materia medica, Vegetable -- History -- To 1500; Botany, Medical -- History -- To 1500; Medicinal plants -- History -- To 1500; MEDICAL -- Pharmacology; Botany, Medical; Materia medica, Vegetable; Medicinal plants; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782044208; 1782044205; 9781782044215; 1782044213
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.