This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that suggest a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience.

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Beatrice Trînca: Einleitung
Tobias Petry: Abstracts
Naïs Virenque: Dendrites' and Preachers' Trees: A Literary and Iconographic Study of Mnemonic Images
Alice Laforêt: “Eve was a fruitless willow”. Botanical Properties and Spiritual Dimension of an Ambiguous Tree
Hans Rudolf Velten: Der allegorische Garten im frühen Mittelalter zwischen Heilwissen, religiöser Semantik und Poetologie. Zum Liber de cultura hortorum des Walahfrid Strabo
Marie-Luise Musiol / Silke Winst: Pfirsichbaum und dunkler Wald. Pflanzliche Konfigurationen zwischen Dynamisierung und Innehalten im Partonopier und Meliur Konrads von Würzburg
Franziska Wenzel: Uneigentlicher Sinn. Das Vegetabile als signum translatum in den Liedern Heinrichs von Mügeln, mit einem Seitenblick auf Frauenlobs Marienleich
Tobias Petry: Knotenholz. Metamorphosen der Selbstmörder in Dantes Inferno XIII
Beatrice Trînca: Verschobener Frühling in der Franziskus-Vita Sibillas von Bondorf (BL Add MS 15710)
Achim Timmermann: Art, Nature and Public Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe
Guita Lamsechi: Reading Forests in the Visual Culture of Early Modern Europe
Delia Cosentino: Transplanting Christianity: Franciscan Martyrdom and the Spiritual Tree in Early Colonial Mexico
Sarina Tschachtli: “Mein Herz will auch ausschlagen”. Spiritual and Vegetal Growth in the Spring Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
Leopoldine Prosperetti: Ars Ponendi Lucum: Groves in Poetry and Art

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