Historical Ethnobotany: Interpreting the Old Records

• Other Authors: Sõukand, Renata (Editor), Kalle, Raivo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; history of ethnobotany; early citizen science studies; history of ethnomedicine; archive data; ethnopharmacology; plant identification; ethnobotany; folk poetry; plant symbolism; ritual plants; useful plants; historical ethnobotany; local ecological knowledge; old herbals; scholarly medicine; Livonia; Courland; duckweed; ethnobotanical convergence; Hildegard von Bingen; Paul Emile Botta; Ritual of the Bacabs; Babylonian Talmud; Kurma Purana; Ono no Komachi; Ho Ching-ming; Cyprus; Maronites; Mediterranean diet; wild greens; folklore collections; biocultural diversity; Estonian history; folk medicine; medicinal plants; anthropology; arable weed conservation; charismatic species; cultural history; cultural symbols; human-plants relations; wild food plants; cultural relict plants; herbal remedies; living biocultural heritage; silvopastoral system; Central Europe; traditional use; historical ethnopharmacology; natural dyes; traditional ecological knowledge; textiles; wool; flax; Easter eggs; art; Baroque; floral elements; NE Mediterranean; Pelješac peninsula; sacral heritage; Alps; borders; ethnomedicine; mountain regions; ethnobotanical investigation; diachronic comparison; historical sources; n/a
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History is the basis for our interpretation of humanity's past. Indeed, new developments in digital humanities and the digitalization of archives can place historical sources in a new light. Systematized historical sources allow us to see the practical changes that have occurred over centuries...