From Earth to Art : : The Many Aspects of the Plant-World in Anglo-Saxon England. Proceedings of the First ASPNS Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 April 2000 /

From Earth to Art : : The Many Aspects of the Plant-World in Anglo-Saxon England. Proceedings of the First ASPNS Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 April 2000 / / edited by C.P. Biggam.

From Earth to Art presents papers from the 'Early Medieval Plant Studies' symposium, a meeting designed to explore the various disciplines which could help to elucidate the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, many of which are not understood. The range of disciplines represented includes l...

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Superior document:Costerus New Series ; 148
TeilnehmendeR:
Biggam, C.P.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Costerus New Series ; 148.
Physical Description:1 online resource (342 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • I LANDSCAPE
  • Della HOOKE: Trees in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: the Charter Evidence
  • Carole HOUGH: Place-Name Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Plant-Names
  • Ralph S. FORBES: Criteria for Assessing the Native Status of British Plants:
  • Some Case Histories
  • II HUMAN SUSTENANCE AND COMFORT
  • Allan R. HALL: Investigating Anglo-Saxon Plant Life and Plant Use: the Archaeobotanical Angle
  • Debby BANHAM: Be hlafum and wyrtum : Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon Society and Economy
  • Maria Amalia D'ARONCO: Anglo-Saxon Plant Pharmacy and the Latin Medical Tradition
  • III PLANTNAMES: ANALYSIS AND RECORDING
  • Peter BIERBAUMER: Real and Not-So-Real Plant-Names in Old English Glosses
  • Hans SAUER: The Morphology of the Old English Plant-Names
  • Philip G. RUSCHE: Dioscorides' De materia medica and Late Old English Herbal Glossaries
  • C. P. BIGGAM: The Æspe Tree in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Anthony ESPOSITO: Medieval Plant-Names in the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Mats RYDÉN: William Turner as Botanist and Plant-Name Scholar
  • IV ART AND LITERATURE
  • Jane HAWKES: The Plant-Life of Early Christian Anglo-Saxon Art
  • Jennifer NEVILLE: Leaves of Glass: Plant-Life in Old English Poetry
  • Lexical Indexes.

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