Unravels the cultural history of plants from 500-1400, when ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved but overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicines, eating habits and art.
Unravels the cultural history of plants from 500-1400, when ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved but overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicines, eating habits and art.
Alain Touwaide is a specialist of the history of botany, medicine, and medicinal plants in the MediterraneanWorld from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond. He is particularly interested in the exchanges of plants, practices, and knowledge between the different populations around the Mediterranean, and has abundantly published on this topic, with a particular focus on Greece and Byzantium. Trained as a philologist, he interprets historical texts at the light of ethnobotany/ethnopharmacology.
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Series Preface List of Figures Introduction, Alain Touwaide 1. Plants as Staple Foods, Melitta Weiss Adamson 2. Plants as Luxury Foods, Alain Touwaide 3. Trade and Exploration, Federica Rotelli 4. Plant Technology and Science: Perception and use of plants in China, Huaiyu Chen 5. Plants and Medicine, Iolanda Ventura, Tony Hunt, Johannes Gottfried Mayer 6. Plants in Culture, Divya Kumar-Dumas 7. Plants as Natural Ornaments. Pre-modern Iranian and Eastern-Islamic Lands, Yves Porter 8. The Representations of Plants: Mediators of Body and Soul, Sarah Kyle Endnotes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Series Preface List of Figures Introduction, Alain Touwaide 1. Plants as Staple Foods, Melitta Weiss Adamson 2. Plants as Luxury Foods, Alain Touwaide 3. Trade and Exploration, Federica Rotelli 4. Plant Technology and Science: Perception and use of plants in China, Huaiyu Chen 5. Plants and Medicine, Iolanda Ventura, Tony Hunt, Johannes Gottfried Mayer 6. Plants in Culture, Divya Kumar-Dumas 7. Plants as Natural Ornaments. Pre-modern Iranian and Eastern-Islamic Lands, Yves Porter 8. The Representations of Plants: Mediators of Body and Soul, Sarah Kyle Endnotes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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