Bücher von Vin Nardizzi

This book gathers essays on premodern plants, considering the position of critical plant studies in relation to medieval studies. Contributions cover topics including the significance of the daisy in the two Prologues to Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; naming in premodern herbals; gathering prayers; vegetal decay in the prose romance Perceforest; the futurity of plants as they ripen and then rot; and vegetal life in libertine science and literature from the seventeenth century. Taken together, they provide a thoughtful reflection on premodern plants.

Dealing with questions on the meaning of eroticism in Renaissance England and its separation from other affective relations, this title examines the distinctive arrangement of sexuality during this period, and the role that queer theory has played in our understanding.