Of books and botany in early modern England: sixteenth-century plants and print culture
Published virtues of the earth: an introduction -- The bookish nature of botanical culture: continental contexts. Botanical renaissance: A potted history -- Words and things in humanist herbalism -- Botany by the book -- Botanical gardens in book form: the herbaria -- Botanical reformation in Willi...
| Summary: | Published virtues of the earth: an introduction -- The bookish nature of botanical culture: continental contexts. Botanical renaissance: A potted history -- Words and things in humanist herbalism -- Botany by the book -- Botanical gardens in book form: the herbaria -- Botanical reformation in William Turner's books of nature. Biographical contexts -- Anthological botany -- Turner's reforms: Naming and translating -- What's in a name? Truth, falsity, and fiction -- John Gerard's uncommon ground. The garden grows: From catalogue to herbal -- The anthology of nature: Gerard's as editor and author -- Botanical poetics and the rhetoric of description -- Imaginary gardens: poets as herbalists -- Domesticated plants and domesticating books: cultivating household textual collection -- The place of books -- The place of plants -- Gallery and paradise -- Stillroom and study -- Posies transposed -- Epilogue |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0754665860 |