Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages - Comparative Contexts

Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.

List of contents

Introduction: The Surrounding Forest - Michael D. J. Bintley and Pippa Salonius

1. Mother Earth, Sister Moon and the Great Forest of T¿ne - Pippa Salonius

2. Beowulf's Foliate Margins: The Surrounding Forest in Early Medieval England - Michael D. J. Bintley

3. Bone, Stone, Wood: Encountering Material Ecologies in Early Medieval Sculpture - Meg Boulton

4. 'Mervoillous fu li engineres que croix fist de fust, non de pierre': Materiality and Vernacular Theology in the Wood of the Cross Legend - Laura Chuhan Campbell

5. The Evolution of Relational Tree-Diagrams from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Century: Visual Devices and Models of Knowledge - José Higuera Rubio

6. From Forest to Orchard: Arboreal Areas as Mnemotechnic Supports in the Middle Ages - Naïs Virenque
7. The Vegetal Imaginary in Exemplary Literature: The Case of the Ci nous dit - Pauline Leplongeon

8. Adam's Sister: Tree Symbolism in Premodern Mystical Islamic Cosmology - Samer Akkach

Concluding Reflections

Summary

Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dr Michael (Royalty Account) Bintley (Editor), Dr. Michael (Royalty Account) Bintley (Editor), Michael Bintley (Editor), Pippa Salonius (Editor), Pippa (Author) Salonius (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2024
• EAN: 9781843846642
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-664-2
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 162 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 644 g
• Illustrations: 4 graphs, 15 colour and 22 b/w illus.
• Series: Nature and Environment in the; Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous