11 PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE A THORNY ROSE BUSH AND OTHER GREENERY LOVE, LUST AND SUFFERING IN THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
3. PREFACE 6
4. PART I CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS: FROM HERBARIUM PICTUM TO HERBARIUM VIVUM
5. Introduction. Early Writings on Beneficial Plants: Perceptions and Prescriptions. The Web of Written and Illustrated Plant Books from Antiquity to the Invention of the Printing Press 11
6. 1 FROM COPY TO COPY 1500 YEARS OF PLANT ILLUSTRATION: THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION 36
7. 2 EARLY PRINTED HERBARIA A BRIEF OUTLINE BASED ON THE EXAMPLES FROM THE LIBERNA COLLECTION 58
8. 3 ‘EVERLASTING GARDENS’ ORIGIN, PURPOSE, SPREAD AND USE OF THE FIRST HERBARIA 72
9. PART II THE USE OF PLANTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
10. 4 PAINTING WITH PLANTS THE USE OF VEGETAL PAINTS IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS 108
11. 5 NAMING NAMES PLANTS IN THE AGE OF CHARLEMAGNE 128
12. 6 THE LONG SHADOW OF ANTIQUITY MEDICINE AND PLANTS 144
13. 7 ‘THE COOK IS THE BEST DOCTOR’ PLANTS FOR FOOD AND HEALTH: RECIPES AND PRESCRIPTIONS 164
14. PART III PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
15. 8 ‘AND IT GREW AND WAXED A GREAT TREE’ A SHORT SURVEY OF PLANTS IN THE BIBLE 181
16. 9 GOOD TREES, BAD TREES BIBLICAL TREE AND PLANT SYMBOLISM IN THE LIBER FLORIDUS 194
17. 10 THE HERBAL BOOK IN JACOB VAN MAERLANT’S DER NATUREN BLOEME 212
18. 11 PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE A THORNY ROSE BUSH AND OTHER GREENERY LOVE, LUST AND SUFFERING IN THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE 228
19. PART IV PLANTS IN MEDIEVAL BOOK DECORATION
20. 12 NAMING THE FLOWERS AND PLANTS IN THE MARGINS OF LATE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS 244
21. 13 FLOWERING MARGINS THE DEVELOPMENT OF STREWN-FLOWER BORDERS IN SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION 266
22. 14 FLOWERS OF MEANING THE INTERPRETATION OF MARGINAL DECORATION IN SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH MANUSCRIPTS FROM AROUND 1500 286
23. APPENDIX
24. Appendix I: A Hand-written Text from Late Antiquity in the Leiden University Library. The Wonders of Plantain in Apuleius Platonicus’ herbarium (Leiden, UB ms VLQ 9) 301
25. Appendix II: A Late Medieval Printed Text in the Athenaeum Library in Deventer. Recipes in a Herb Book from 1497, the Ortus sanitatis (Deventer, AB 2000 E 45 KL) 310
26. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 320
27. ABBREVIATIONS 321
28. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 322
29. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS CITED AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS 326
30. INDEX OF INDIVIDUALS (AUTHORS, PATRONS, MAKERS AND OWNERS OF HERBARIA, ARTISTS, PRINTERS) TITLES (BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, HERBARIA) AND PLANTS IN CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY 328
31. INDEX OF ENGLISH PLANT NAMES 331
32. LATIN NAMES FOR MEDIEVAL PLANT NAMES 334
33. INDEX OF LATIN PLANT NAMES 335
34. INDEX OF MEDIEVAL LATIN AND GREEK PLANT NAMES (ITALICS) AND (OLD) DUTCH (D.), GERMAN (G.) AND FRENCH (FR.) NAMES (ROMAN) 336
35. COLOPHON 342