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Plant Names of Medieval England

Tony Hunt author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:2nd Mar '89

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` Compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship; will be of great value to lexicographers and all students of medieval medicine and botany.' PAULINE THOMPSON, NOTES AND QUERIES `...compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship...' NOTES AND QUERIES The first reference work on the botanical language of the English middle ages to appear inprint. Covering approximately 1800 names, applied to some six hundred species, and including over five hundred names not recorded in the OED, it is an indispensable reference work and a comprehensive guide to the bibliography of the subject. Lexicologistswill find a wealth of new material.

` Compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship; will be of great value to lexicographers and all students of medieval medicine and botany. -- PAULINE THOMPSON, NOTES AND QUERIES

ISBN: 9780859912730

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 742g

390 pages