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

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

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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

Beteiligte: As-Vijvers, Anne Margreet W. [MitwirkendeR]; Bergen, Saskia Van [MitwirkendeR]; Biemans, Jos A.A.M. [MitwirkendeR]; Briët, Jan Willem [MitwirkendeR]; Chavannes-Mazel, Claudine A. [MitwirkendeR]; Chavannes-Mazel, Claudine [HerausgeberIn]; Dijkema, Annabel [MitwirkendeR]; Ellers, Iris [MitwirkendeR]; IJpelaar, Linda [HerausgeberIn]; Ijpelaar, Linda [MitwirkendeR]; Leeflang, Micha [MitwirkendeR]; Mulders, Esther [MitwirkendeR]; Thijsse, Gerard [MitwirkendeR]; Uffelen, Gerda van [MitwirkendeR]; Winter, Johanna Maria van [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9789048557745

ISBN: 9789048557745

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Schlagwörter: Botany Europe History To 1500 ; Civilization, Medieval ; Nature and civilization Europe History To 1500 ; Plants and civilization Europe History To 1500 ; HISTORY / Medieval ; medieval culture, plants in medieval manuscript, artes, medieval literature, paleography, drawings of plants, the use of plants

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Beschreibung: 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 deforestation and sustainability. This book is about the knowledge of plants and where that knowledge came from. How did people use earth and plants in ancient times, and what did they know about their nutritional or medicinal properties? From which plants one could make dyes, such as indigo, woad and dyer’s madder? Is it possible to determine that through technical research today? Which plants could be found in a ninth-century monastery garden, and what is the symbolic significance of plants in secular and religious literature? The Green Middle Ages addresses these and other issues, including the earliest herbarium collections, with a leading role for the palaeography and beautiful illuminations from numerous medieval manuscripts kept in Dutch and other Western libraries and museums

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