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Premodern Plants de Vin Nardizzi

Premodern Plants

Editat de Vin Nardizzi
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 dec 2023
This book gathers essays on premodern plants, considering the position of critical plant studies in relation to medieval studies. Contributions cover topics including the significance of the daisy in the two Prologues to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; naming in premodern herbals; gathering prayers; vegetal decay in the prose romance Perceforest; the futurity of plants as they ripen and then rot; and vegetal life in libertine science and literature from the seventeenth century. Taken together, they provide a thoughtful reflection on premodern plants.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031464089
ISBN-10: 3031464087
Pagini: 123
Ilustrații: V, 123 p.
Dimensiuni: 210 x 279 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Editor's introduction.- 2. ‘Farewel my bok’: Paying attention to flowers in Chaucer’s prologues to The Legend of Good Women.- 3. Vegetal continuity and the naming of species.- 4. The sacrificial herb: Gathering prayers in medieval pharmacy.- 5. Written in trees.- 6. Fruit and rot: Vegetal theology in Perceforest.- 7. Before and after plants.- 8. Libertine botany: Vegetal sexualities, vegetal forms.- 9. Centerpieces.- 10. Writing with plants.- 11. Is Dante a cosmopolitan?

Notă biografică

Vin Nardizzi is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book gathers essays on premodern plants, considering the position of critical plant studies in relation to medieval studies. Contributions cover topics including the significance of the daisy in the two Prologues to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; naming in premodern herbals; gathering prayers; vegetal decay in the prose romance Perceforest; the futurity of plants as they ripen and then rot; and vegetal life in libertine science and literature from the seventeenth century. Taken together, they provide a thoughtful reflection on premodern plants.

Previously published in postmedieval Volume 9, issue 4, November 2018.

Vin Nardizzi is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Caracteristici

Explores premodern plants as they appear in medieval literature Considers the position of critical plant studies Interrogates a variety of primary sources, from Chaucer to medieval grafting treatises