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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799217103321

Autore

Nardizzi Vin

Titolo

Premodern Plants

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

©2023

ISBN

3-031-46409-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 pages)

Disciplina

630.9

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- About the Author and Issue Editors -- References -- 'Farewel my bok': Paying attention to flowers in Chaucer's prologues to The Legend of Good Women -- Abstract -- About the Author -- References -- Vegetal continuity and the naming of species -- Abstract -- Botanomass -- Specimens and clones -- Phytographia -- About the Author -- References -- The sacrificial herb: Gathering prayers in medieval pharmacy -- Abstract -- Gathering prayers -- The therapeutic logistics of plant prayers -- 'I beg you with this prayer' -- About the Author -- References -- Written in trees -- Abstract -- The 'privy werkyngis' of arboreal matter -- Compiling practicality, recounting wonder -- Acknowledgment -- About the Author -- References -- Fruit and rot: Vegetal theology in Perceforest -- Abstract -- World-tree as Creator God -- Breasts and Eucharistic feeding -- Rot and rebirth -- Refusing to rot: Doritos and preserved bodies -- About the Author -- References -- Before and after plants -- Abstract -- The age of trees -- After life -- About the Author -- References -- Libertine botany: Vegetal sexualities, vegetal forms -- Abstract -- Introduction: libertinage meets botanique -- Vegetal form and vegetal pleasures in La Brosse and Cyrano -- Enlightened models of vegetal sexuality and the libertine inheritance -- About the Authors -- References -- Centerpieces -- About the Author -- References -- Writing with plants -- Interconnection and Entanglement -- Vegetal Life -- Technologies of Access -- About the Authors -- References -- Is Dante a cosmopolitan? -- Abstract --



Dante and International Relations Theory -- Cosmopolitanism and sodomy in The Divine Comedy -- Cosmopolitans: ancient and modern -- Cosmopolitanism and Monarchia -- Conclusion -- About the Author -- References.