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Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Leah Knight
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Leah Knight argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and books depended on each other in historically specific ways. Knight's in-depth re
Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Leah Knight
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight exposes and analy
Reading Green in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Leah Knight
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-08 - Publisher: Routledge

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Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a
Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Jennifer Evans
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.
Colonial Botany
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Londa Schiebinger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among p