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A Shakespearean Botanical
Buch von Margaret Willes
Sprache: Englisch

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When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet calls for quinces to make pies for the marriage feast of her daughter. This fruit was traditionally connected with weddings and fertility, as echoed by John Gerard in his herbal where he also explained that eating quinces would 'bring forth wise children, and of good understanding'.

Taking fifty quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, Margaret Willes gives these botanical references their social context to provide an intriguing and original focus on daily life in Tudor and Jacobean England, looking in particular at medicine, cookery, gardening and folklore traditions.

Exquisitely illustrated with unique hand-painted engravings from the Bodleian Library's copy of John Gerard's herbal of 1597, this book marries the beauty of Shakespeare's lines with charming contemporary renderings of the plants he described so vividly.
When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet calls for quinces to make pies for the marriage feast of her daughter. This fruit was traditionally connected with weddings and fertility, as echoed by John Gerard in his herbal where he also explained that eating quinces would 'bring forth wise children, and of good understanding'.

Taking fifty quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, Margaret Willes gives these botanical references their social context to provide an intriguing and original focus on daily life in Tudor and Jacobean England, looking in particular at medicine, cookery, gardening and folklore traditions.

Exquisitely illustrated with unique hand-painted engravings from the Bodleian Library's copy of John Gerard's herbal of 1597, this book marries the beauty of Shakespeare's lines with charming contemporary renderings of the plants he described so vividly.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781851244379
ISBN-10: 1851244379
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Willes, Margaret
Hersteller: Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: 63 Farbabbildungen
Maße: 193 x 123 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Willes
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
Artikel-ID: 104718722
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781851244379
ISBN-10: 1851244379
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Willes, Margaret
Hersteller: Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: 63 Farbabbildungen
Maße: 193 x 123 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Willes
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
Artikel-ID: 104718722
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