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Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden

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8vo. xiii, 256 p. : ill. Light wear. Extensive footnotes with bibliographic references.
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Dendle, Peter & Touwaide, Alan (Editors)
​Health and Healing From The Medieval Garden 
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008
8vo. xiii, 256 p. : ill. Light wear. Extensive footnotes with bibliographic references. Index of Manuscripts.

Contents:      
     1.  The Legacy of Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and the West - Alain Touwaide

     2.  Plants and Planets: Linking the Vegetable with the Celestial in Late- Medieval Texts - Linda Ehrsam Voigts
     3.  Plants in the Early Medieval Cosmos: Herbs, Divine Potency, and the Scala natura - Peter Dendle
     4.  A Cook's Therapeutic Use of Garden Herbs - Terence Scully
     5.  The Jujube-Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study in the Methodolo gy of Textual Archaobotany - Alain  Touwaide
     6.  Gardens on Vellum: Plants and Herbs in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts - Maria D'Aronco
     7.  The Sources for Plant Names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary - Philip Rusche
     8.  Anglo-Saxon Ethnobotany: Women's Reproductive medicine in Leechbook III - Marijane Osborn
     9.  Herbs and the Medieval Surgeon - Peter Murray Jones
   10.  Rosemary: Not Just for Rememberance - George R. Keiser
   11.  Utility and Aesthetics in the Gardens of al-Andalus: Species with Multiple Uses - Expiración García Sánchez
   12.  Hortus Redivivus: The Medieval Garden Recreated - Deirdre Larkin

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