Of books and botany in early modern england: sixteenth-century plants and print culture
Auteur :
Knight, Leah
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780754665861
Date de publication :
20 avr. 2009
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Examining both poetic and botanical texts, as well as the poetics of botanical texts, this study focuses on the two English botanical writers of the sixteenth century, William Turner and John Gerard, to suggest the unexpected historical relationship between literature and science in the early modern genre of the herbal.