From Earth to Art: The Many Aspects of the Plant-World in Anglo-Saxon England. Proceedings of the First Aspns Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 Ap (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789042008076)

From Earth to Art presents papers from the 'Early Medieval Plant Studies' symposium, a meeting designed to explore the various disciplines which could help to elucidate the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, many of which are not understood. The range of disciplines represented includes landscape history, place-name studies, botany, archaeology, art history, Old English literature, the history of food and of medicine, and linguistic approaches such as semantics and morphology. This collection represents a first experimental step in the work of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey (ASPNS), a multidisciplinary research project based in the University of Glasgow. ASPNS is dedicated to collecting and reviewing, for the first time, the total multidisciplinary evidence for each plant-name, and establishing new or improved identifications. The results will have implications for various historical studies such as agriculture, pharmacology, nutrition, climate, dialect, and more. Included in the book is the first ASPNS word-study, concerned with the Old English word spe (the ancestor of 'aspen'), and it is shown that this tree-name had a broader meaning than has hitherto been suspected. This book will be of interest to historians, botanists, archaeologists, linguists, geographers, gardeners, herbalists, conservationists and anyone interested in the crucial role of plants in history.

Author: C. P. Biggam
ISBN-10: 9042008075
ISBN-13: 9789042008076
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.77d