The Green Middle Ages
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The Green Middle Ages

The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600

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eBook - ePub

The Green Middle Ages

The Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600

About this book

How 'green' were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The population size was many times smaller than today and human impact on nature not as extreme as it is now. People did not have to worry about issues like deforestation and sustainability. This book is about the knowledge of plants and where that knowledge came from. How did people use earth and plants in ancient times, and what did they know about their nutritional or medicinal properties? From which plants one could make dyes, such as indigo, woad and dyer's madder? Is it possible to determine that through technical research today? Which plants could be found in a ninth-century monastery garden, and what is the symbolic significance of plants in secular and religious literature? The Green Middle Ages addresses these and other issues, including the earliest herbarium collections, with a leading role for the palaeography and beautiful illuminations from numerous medieval manuscripts kept in Dutch and other Western libraries and museums.

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Yes, you can access The Green Middle Ages by Claudine Chavannes-Mazel,Linda IJpelaar in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Kunst & Europäische Geschichte des Mittelalters. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Part I Chronological Development: From Herbarium Pictum to Herbarium Vivum
  7. Part II The Use of Plants in the Middle Ages
  8. Part III Plants in Medieval Literature
  9. Part IV Plants in Medieval Book Illumination
  10. Appendix
  11. List of illustrations
  12. Abbreviations
  13. Selected Bibliography
  14. Primary sources
  15. Secondary Sources
  16. Exhibition Catalogues
  17. Index of Manuscripts, Early Printed Books, and Objects
  18. General Index of individuals, titles of printed works, iconography
  19. Index of English plant names
  20. Latin names for medieval plant names
  21. Index of Latin plant names
  22. Index of medieval Latin and Greek plant names (italics) and (old) Dutch (D.), German (G.) and French (Fr.) Names (roman)
  23. Colophon