Botanical culture and popular belief in shakespeare's england
Auteur :
Lander Johnson, Bonnie
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009396523
Date de publication :
9 janv. 2025
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Addressing an imbalance in early modern studies, Bonnie Lander Johnson reveals how, through interest in popular plant cultures and beliefs – tree ballads, embroidery, pedagogical tales, almanacs – Shakespeare put illiterate culture in contact with questions usually deemed learned and elite: theology, politics, the military and medicine.