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

In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.

List of contents

Prologue. Milton's trees; Introduction. Authorizing English botany; Part I. A History of Herbals: 1. Authorship, book history, and the effects of artifacts; 2. The stationers' company and constraints on English printing; 3. Salubrious illustration and the economics of English herbals; Part II. Anonymity in the Printed English Herbal: 4. Reframing competition: the curious case of the little Herball; 5. The Grete Herball and evidence in the margins; 6. 'Unpublished virtues of the earth': books of healing on the English renaissance stage; Part III. Authors and the Printed English Herbal: 7. William Turner and the medical book trade; 8. John Norton and the redemption of John Gerard.

About the author

Sarah Neville is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University. She is an assistant editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare and an associate co-ordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions.

Summary

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.

Foreword

In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Neville
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2024
• EAN: 9781009013604
• ISBN: 978-1-00-901360-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 448 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Holistic medicine; HEALTH & FITNESS / Herbal Medications, HEALTH & FITNESS / Alternative Therapies, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Traditional medicine and herbal remedies, Traditional medicine & herbal remedies