Book ID: 115944
Touwaide, Alain (ed.)
A Cultural History of Plants in the Post Classical Era. 2023. (Cultural Histories Series). illus. (b/w). 264 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
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 the ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved, but these were overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicine, eating habits, and art.