A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era
$107.64
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2025
Summary
From Medieval Gardens to Global Trade: A Cultural History of Plants (500-1400)
A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Mediterranean, and from the Byzantine and Arabic Empires to the Persian World, India, and China. This was an age of empires and fluctuating borders, presenting a changing mosaic of environments, populations, and cultural practices. Many of t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350550599 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1350550590 |
| Series: | The Cultural Histories Series |
| Author: | Alain Touwaide |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 168mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Alain Touwaide
Alain Touwaide is a specialist of the history of botany, medicine, and medicinal plants in the Mediterranean World from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond. He is particularly interested in the exchanges of plants, practices, and knowledge between the different populations around the Mediterranean, and has abundantly published on this topic, with a particular focus on Greece and Byzantium. Trained as a philologist, he interprets historical texts at the light of ethnobotany/ethnopharmacology.
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