Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany

ISBN-13: 9781316515990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 290 str.

Sarah Neville

Opis

In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.

Recenzje

'This is a unique text … Libraries with collections covering the history of the book and printing, the history of medicine, or Renaissance English literature would do well to add this volume to their shelves … Highly recommended.' R. C. Hedreen, Choice

Spis treści

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 'Unpublished virtues of the earth': books of healing on the English renaissance stage; Part III.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.