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

• Tác giả: Sarah Neville
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1009031615
• ISBN-13: 978-1316515990
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 615.3210942 Organic drugs
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 270739
• Chủ đề: 1. English literature - Renaissance and early modern to; 2. British & Irish history; 3. History of science; 4. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; 5. Social & cultural history

Tóm tắt

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.