Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany

• Main Author: Neville, Sarah (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Series: Humanities
• Subjects: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Social & cultural history; History of science; British & Irish history; English literature - Renaissance and early modern to; publishing; printing history; history of the book; history of science (general)
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Summary

Herbals, books describing the characteristics and uses of plants, were extraordinarily popular as a genre in early modern England. Illuminating the herbal's rich material history and its remarkable popularity across the social spectrum, Sarah Neville reveals the close relationship between print culture and the construction of scientific authority.

ISBN

9781009031615
9781316515990

DOI

10.1017/9781009031615

Access

Open Access