Download or read book Herbs for the Mediaeval Household written by Margaret B. Freeman and published by New York : The Metropolitan museum of art. This book was released on 1943 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains curious and fascinating information about herbs - herbs for cooking, herbs for healing, sweet-smelling herbs for laying among clothes, and still other herbs. To read these pages is to look through a window into the intimate daily life of our mediaeval forebears. We learn what infusions were used to "make a good color in the face" (Madonna lily); how to "comfort the stomach" (wild strawberry) and keep witches away from the house (periwinkle and mallow); how to "make folk merry at table" (vervain); and how to cure a "cold humour in the head" (pennyroyal). Eighty-five different herbs are described and most of them are illustrated in handsome reproductions of woodcuts from fifteenth and sixteenth century herbals. This is a book for anyone who loves unusual lore from the past.

Download or read book Herbs written by Margaret Beam Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herbs for the Mediaeval Household for Cooking Healing and Divers Uses Illustrated written by Margaret B. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herbs for the Mediaeval Household for Cooking Healing and Divers Uses written by Margaret B. Freeman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1943-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering nearly seventy different herbs, this book details each plant’s specific role in several aspects of medieval society including cooking, healing, and pest control. Illustrated with 16th century prints which highlight the practical applications and symbolic significance of botanicals in the household as well as prints of the featured plants from a 15th century manuscript, this book provides a clear but thorough introduction to herbs and their diverse uses in medieval Europe.

Download or read book Culinary Herbs and Spices written by Elizabeth I Opara and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to bring together current knowledge of thirty of the most commonly used culinary herbs and spices globally in an accessible dictionary format.

Download or read book How to Do It written by Rudolph M. Bell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Or should you want to goad female desires, throw 90 grubs in a liter of olive oil, let steep in the sun for a week and apply liberally on the male anatomy. Bell's journey through booklets long dismissed by scholars as being of little literary value gives us a refreshing and surprisingly fun social history. "Lively and curious reading, particularly in its cascade of anecdote, offered in a breezy, cozy, journalistic style." —Lauro Martines, Times Literary Supplement "[Bell's] fascinating book is a window on a lost world far nearer to our own than we might imagine. . . . How pleasant to read his delightful, informative and often hilarious book." —Kate Saunders, The Independent "An extraordinary work which blends the learned with the frankly bizarre." —The Economist "Professor Bell has a sly sense of humor and an enviably strong stomach. . . . He wants to know how people actually behaved, not how the Church or philosophers or earnest humanists thought they should behave. I loved this book." —Christopher Stace, Daily Telegraph

Download or read book Medieval Art written by Michael Byron Norris and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This educational resource packet covers more than 1200 years of medieval art from western Europe and Byzantium, as represented by objects in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the contents of this resource are: an overview of medieval art and the period; a collection of aspects of medieval life, including knighthood, monasticism, pilgrimage, and pleasures and pastimes; information on materials and techniques medieval artists used; maps; a timeline; a bibliography; and a selection of useful resources, including a list of significant collections of medieval art in the U.S. and Canada and a guide to relevant Web sites. Tote box includes a binder book containing background information, lesson plans, timeline, glossary, bibliography, suggested additional resources, and 35 slides, as well as two posters and a 2 CD-ROMs.

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Download or read book The Cloisters written by Peter Barnet and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, published to celebrate The Cloisters' seventy-fifth anniversary, richly illustrates and describes the most important highlights of its collection, from paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and exquisitely carved ivories to its monumental architecture evocative of the grand religious spaces and domestic interiors of the Middle Ages. The Cloisters remains a testament to design innovation--a New York City landmark with sweeping views of the Hudson River--featuring original elements of Romanesque and Gothic architecture dating from the 12th through the 15th century. Three of the structures enclose beautiful gardens cultivated with species known from tapestries, medieval herbals, and other historic sources. These exotic spaces, the art masterpieces, and the fragrant plants offer visitors an oasis of serenity and inspiration. This book both encapsulates and enhances that experience.

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Download or read book Current List of Medical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section, "Recent book acquisitions" (varies: Recent United States publications) formerly published separately by the U.S. Army Medical Library.

Download or read book Green Medicine written by Margaret Kreig and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herbs Partners in Life written by Adele G. Dawson and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vermont herbalist Dawson traces the human-plant relationship through the seasons, providing practical and enlightening information about every aspect of herbalism. Includes chapters on how to identify, collect, and preserve herbs as well as detailed illustrations of plants and their anatomy.

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Download or read book Just Weeds written by Pamela Jones and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To author Pamela Jones, weeds--far from being the scourge of the garden--are among nature's most generous gifts, and in this delightful book, she conveys not only her knowledge about them, but her affection for them as well. 30 full-color line drawings.