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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Rams Little Dodeon [sic]
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Author: Rembert DodoensPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Rams Little Dodeon [sic]
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Author: Rams little Dodeon. A briefe epitome of the new Herbal ... Collected out of the ... newe Herball ... first set forth in the Dutch ... tongue by R. Dodeon ... and lately ... translated by H. Lyte ... Now collected and abbridged by W. Ram. B.L.
Author: Rembert DodoensThe Marvels of the World
Author: Rebecca BushnellPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297814
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward nature as simple or univocal. Gathering together medical texts, herbals, and how-to books, as well as scientific, religious, philosophical, and poetic works dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment, the anthology explores both mainstream and unconventional thinking about the natural world. Its seven parts focus on philosophy and science; plants; animals; weather and climate; ways of inhabiting the land; gardens and gardening; and European encounters with the wider world. Each section and each of the book's selections is prefaced with a helpful introduction by volume editor Rebecca Bushnell that weaves connections among these compelling pieces of the past. The early writers collected here wrote with extraordinary openness about ways of coexisting with the nonhuman forces that shaped them, Bushnell demonstrates, even as they sought to control and exploit their environment. Taken as a whole, The Marvels of the World reveals how many of these early writers cared as much about the natural world as we do today.
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Author: James Tregaskis (Firm)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
Author: Sarah NevillePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009033042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Designed to serve readers across the social spectrum, these rich material artifacts represented both a profitable investment for publishers and an opportunity for authors to establish their credibility as botanists. Highlighting the shifting contingencies and regulations surrounding herbals and English printing during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the book argues that the construction of scientific authority in Renaissance England was inextricably tied up with the circumstances governing print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Journal of Botany
Author: Reproductive Rituals
Author: Angus McLarenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000026884
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume describes a surprising number of rules, regulations, taboos, injunctions, charms and herbal remedies used to affect pregnancy, and shows the extent to which individual women and men were concerned with controlling the size of their families. The fertility levels in England – as in Western Europe as a whole – were a very long way from the biological maximum in these centuries, and the book discusses the various reasons why this was so. The book reviews traditional ideas concerning the relationship between procreation and pleasure, drawn from a range of contemporary sources and discusses ways in which earlier generations sought both to promote and limit fertility. The book also examines abortion and shows how much evidence there is for its actual practice during the period and of traditional views towards it. This book provides a detailed understanding of historical attitudes towards conception family planning in pre-industrial England.