{"product_id":"the-green-middle-ages-the-depiction-and-use-of-plants-in-the-western-world-600-1600-9789463726191","title":"The Green Middle Ages: The Depiction and Use of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow ‘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. \u003cbr\u003eThis 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003ccite\u003eThe Green Middle Ages\u003c\/cite\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e PART 1 - Chronological Development: from herbarium pictum to herbarium vivum \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction | Early Writings on Beneficial Plants: Perceptions and Prescriptions (Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel) \u003cbr\u003eThe Web of Written and Illustrated Plant Books from Antiquity to the Invention of the Printing Press \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. From Copy to Copy. 1500 years of Plant Illustrations (Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Early Printed Herbaria. A Brief Sketch Based on Examples from the Liberna Collection (Iris Ellers) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. ‘Everlasting Gardens’ . Origin, Distribution and Purpose of the First herbaria viva (Gerard Thijsse) \u003cbr\u003ePart II - The Use of Plants in the Middle Ages \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Painting with Plants. The Use of Vegetable-based Dyes in Medieval Manuscripts (Micha Leeflang and Annabel Dijkema) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Naming Names. Plants in the Age of Charlemagne (Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel and Gerda van Uffelen) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Long Shadow of Antiquity Medicine and Plants (Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. ‘The Cook is the Best Doctor'. Plants for Food and Health: Recipes and Prescriptions (Johanna Maria van Winter) \u003cbr\u003ePart III - Plants in medieval literature \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. ‘And it Grew and Waxed a Great Tree' A Short Survey of Plants in the Bible (Linda IJpelaar) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Good Trees, Bad Trees Biblical Tree and Plant Symbolism in the Liber floridus (Linda IJpelaar) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The Herb Book in Jacob van Maerlant's \u003ccite\u003eDer naturen bloeme\u003c\/cite\u003e (Jos A.A.M. Biemans) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. A Thorny Rosebush and Other Greenery: Love, Lust and Suffering in the Romance of the Rose (Esther Mulders) \u003cbr\u003ePart IV - Plants in Medieval Book Illumination \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Names of Flowers and Plants in the Margins of late Medieval Manuscripts (Saskia van Bergen) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Flowering Margins. The Development of Strewn-Flower Borders in Early Netherlandish Manuscript Illumination in the Fifteenth Century (Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Flowers of Meaning. The Interpretation of Marginal Decoration in Southern Netherlandish Manuscripts from around 1500 (Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers) \u003cbr\u003eAppendix I: A Hand-written Text from Late Antiquity in the Leiden University Library. The Wonders of Plantain in Apuleius Platonicus’ herbarium (Leiden, UB ms VLQ 9) (Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel) \u003cbr\u003eAppendix II: A Late Medieval Printed Text in the Athenaeum Library in Deventer. Recipes in a Herb Book from 1497, the Ortus sanitatis (Deventer, AB 2000 E 45 KL) (Jan Willem Briët) \u003cbr\u003eFootnotes \u003cbr\u003ePicture acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eAbout the authors \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndices","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473243279703,"sku":"9789463726191","price":45.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789463726191.jpg?v=1744905837","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-green-middle-ages-the-depiction-and-use-of-plants-in-the-western-world-600-1600-9789463726191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}