C.P. Biggam
From Earth to Art: The Many Aspects of the Plant-world in Anglo-Saxon England (Costerus)
Proceedings of the First ASPNS Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 April 2000.
Contents:
Part I LANDSCAPE
Della HOOKE: Trees in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: the Charter Evidence
Carole HOUGH: Place-Name Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Plant-Names
Ralph S. FORBES: Criteria for Assessing the Native Status of British Plants: Some Case Histories
Part II HUMAN SUSTENANCE AND COMFORT
Allan R. HALL: Investigating Anglo-Saxon Plant Life and Plant Use: the Archaeobotanical Angle
Debby BANHAM: 'Be hlafum and wyrtum': Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon Society and Economy
Maria Amalia D'ARONCO: Anglo-Saxon Plant Pharmacy and the Latin Medical Tradition
Part III PLANTNAMES: ANALYSIS AND RECORDING
Peter BIERBAUMER: Real and Not-So-Real Plant-Names in Old English Glosses
Hans SAUER: The Morphology of the Old English Plant-Names
Philip G. RUSCHE: Dioscorides' 'De materia medica' and Late Old English Herbal Glossaries
C. P. BIGGAM: The 'aespe' Tree in Anglo-Saxon England
Anthony ESPOSITO: Medieval Plant-Names in the 'Oxford English Dictionary'
Mats RYDÉN: William Turner as Botanist and Plant-Name Scholar
Part IV ART AND LITERATURE
Jane HAWKES: The Plant-Life of Early Christian Anglo-Saxon Art
Jennifer NEVILLE: Leaves of Glass: Plant-Life in Old English Poetry Lexical Indexes
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