Early Modern Herbals And The Book Trade
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Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
Author | : Sarah Neville |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781316515990 |
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In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
A Modern Herbal Vol 2
Author | : Mrs. M. Grieve |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:500429429 |
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An Illustrated History of the Herbals
Author | : Frank J. Anderson |
Publsiher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Botany, Medical |
ISBN | : 9781583481141 |
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This book is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated history of herbal texts throughout the world from ancient cultures through the seventeenth century. An “herbal” by definition is a book that is descriptive of plants and the term did not come into use until the sixteenth century. The production of herbals is closely connected to the history of early printing and offers the finest examples of this art and craft. However, the earliest records of ancient Egypt, Sumer and China all reflect a tradition of works of botanicals and their medicinal properties long before printing. The author’s survey begins with a work called De materia medica written in the first century which is extant and, as the final authority on pharmacy for 1500 years, is the most important herbal ever written. The study of herbals offers a rich history of the culture and beliefs from the folklore and science of medieval and classical worlds.
Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine
Author | : Anne Stobart,Susan Francia |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781441184184 |
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Provides new ideas to address today's global development challenges, evaluating past experience and exploring answers for the future.
Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Author | : Joad Raymond |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521028776 |
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A history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.
A Modern Herbal
Author | : Margaret Grieve |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780486317298 |
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"There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student. Regarded simply as a history of flowers, it adds to the joys of the country." — B. E. Todd, Spectator. If you want to know how pleurisy root, lungwort, and abscess root got their names, how poison ivy used to treat rheumatism, or how garlic guarded against the Bubonic Plague, consult A Modern Herbal. This 20th-century version of the medieval Herbal is as rich in scientific fact and folklore as its predecessors and is equally encyclopedic in coverage. From aconite to zedoary, not an herb, grass, fungus, shrub or tree is overlooked; and strange and wonderful discoveries about even the most common of plants await the reader. Traditionally, an herbal combined the folk beliefs and tales about plants, the medicinal properties (and parts used) of the herbs, and their botanical classification. But Mrs. Grieve has extended and enlarged the tradition; her coverage of asafetida, bearberry, broom, chamomile, chickweed, dandelion, dock, elecampane, almond, eyebright, fenugreek, moss, fern, figwort, gentian, Hart's tongue, indigo, acacia, jaborandi, kava kava, lavender, pimpernel, rhubarb, squill, sage, thyme, sarsaparilla, unicorn root, valerian, woundwort, yew, etc. — more than 800 varieties in all — includes in addition methods of cultivation; the chemical constituents, dosages, and preparations of extracts and tinctures, unknown to earlier herbalists; possible economic and cosmetic properties, and detailed illustrations, from root to bud, of 161 plants. Of the many exceptional plants covered in Herbal, perhaps the most fascinating are the poisonous varieties — hemlock, poison oak, aconite, etc. — whose poisons, in certain cases, serve medical purposes and whose antidotes (if known) are given in detail. And of the many unique features, perhaps the most interesting are the hundreds of recipes and instructions for making ointments, lotions, sauces, wines, and fruit brandies like bilberry and carrot jam, elderberry and mint vinegar, sagina sauce, and cucumber lotion for sunburn; and the hundreds of prescriptions for tonics and liniments for bronchitis, arthritis, dropsy, jaundice, nervous tension, skin disease, and other ailments. 96 plates, 161 illustrations.
Reading Material in Early Modern England
Author | : Heidi Brayman Hackel |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2005-02-17 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0521842514 |
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Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literacy theory and the elite male reader of literacy history.
Renaissance Paratexts
Author | : Helen Smith,Louise Wilson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139495844 |
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In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.