Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era

Series Preface
List of Figures

Introduction, Alain Touwaide

1. Plants as Staple Foods, Melitta Weiss Adamson
2. Plants as Luxury Foods, Alain Touwaide
3. Trade and Exploration, Federica Rotelli
4. Plant Technology and Science: Perception and use of plants in China, Huaiyu Chen
5. Plants and Medicine, Iolanda Ventura, Tony Hunt, Johannes Gottfried Mayer
6. Plants in Culture, Divya Kumar-Dumas
7. Plants as Natural Ornaments. Pre-modern Iranian and Eastern-Islamic Lands, Yves Porter
8. The Representations of Plants: Mediators of Body and Soul, Sarah Kyle
Endnotes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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• Arte e arquitectura paisagística
• Estudos cultirais
• História social e cultural
• História da Ciência
• História Antiga: c 500 a c 1450/1500

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