Herbals, books describing the characteristics and uses of plants, were extraordinarily popular as a genre in early modern England. Illuminating the herbal's rich material history and its remarkable popularity across the social spectrum, Sarah Neville reveals the close relationship between print culture and the construction of scientific authority.
Herbals, books describing the characteristics and uses of plants, were extraordinarily popular as a genre in early modern England. Illuminating the herbal's rich material history and its remarkable popularity across the social spectrum, Sarah Neville reveals the close relationship between print culture and the construction of scientific authority.
Sarah Neville is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University. She is an assistant editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare and an associate co-ordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions.
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Prologue. Milton's trees Introduction. Authorizing English botany Part I. A History of Herbals: 1. Authorship, book history, and the effects of artifacts 2. The stationers' company and constraints on English printing 3. Salubrious illustration and the economics of English herbals Part II. Anonymity in the Printed English Herbal: 4. Reframing competition: the curious case of the little Herball 5. The Grete Herball and evidence in the margins 6. 'Unpublished virtues of the earth': books of healing on the English renaissance stage Part III. Authors and the Printed English Herbal: 7. William Turner and the medical book trade 8. John Norton and the redemption of John Gerard.
Prologue. Milton's trees Introduction. Authorizing English botany Part I. A History of Herbals: 1. Authorship, book history, and the effects of artifacts 2. The stationers' company and constraints on English printing 3. Salubrious illustration and the economics of English herbals Part II. Anonymity in the Printed English Herbal: 4. Reframing competition: the curious case of the little Herball 5. The Grete Herball and evidence in the margins 6. 'Unpublished virtues of the earth': books of healing on the English renaissance stage Part III. Authors and the Printed English Herbal: 7. William Turner and the medical book trade 8. John Norton and the redemption of John Gerard.
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