From Earth to Art presents papers from the ‘Early Medieval Plant Studies’ symposium, a meeting designed to explore the various disciplines which could help to elucidate the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, many of which are not understood. The range of disciplines represented includes landscape history, place-name studies, botany, archaeology, art history, Old English literature, the history of food and of medicine, and linguistic approaches such as semantics and morphology. This collection represents a first experimental step in the work of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey (ASPNS), a multidisciplinary research project based in the University of Glasgow. ASPNS is dedicated to collecting and reviewing, for the first time, the total multidisciplinary evidence for each plant-name, and establishing new or improved identifications. The results will have implications for various historical studies such as agriculture, pharmacology, nutrition, climate, dialect, and more. Included in the book is the first ASPNS word-study, concerned with the Old English word æspe (the ancestor of ‘aspen’), and it is shown that this tree-name had a broader meaning than has hitherto been suspected. This book will be of interest to historians, botanists, archaeologists, linguists, geographers, gardeners, herbalists, conservationists and anyone interested in the crucial role of plants in history.
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Trees in pre-Conquest charters and early place-names evoke familiar objects which, nonetheless, carry us back to the landscape of one thousand years ago: they are comforting and small-scale features which we can readily visualise in the landscape. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
charter boundary clauses, grey poplar, wood germander, des altenglischen, plant photographed, attested independently, syntactic groups, headword entry, spelling history, other poplars, charter bounds, quotation paragraph, black poplar, white leek, white poplar, boundary landmarks, white horehound, native status, attested meaning, early spellings, first clement, black alder, popular etymology, plant names, hybrid formations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Cambridge University Press, Anglo-Saxon England, English Place-Name Society, West Riding of Yorkshire, British Isles, Oxford University Press, Middle English, English Place-Name Survey, British Library, William Turner, Great Britain, North Riding of Yorkshire, Clark Hall, Middle Ages, East Riding of Yorkshire, Rune Poem, Vitellius Ciii, Late Antique, University of Toronto, Clarendon Press, Medieval Plant-Names, English Studies, Brussels Glossary, English Place-Name Elements New!
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Trees in pre-Conquest charters and early place-names evoke familiar objects which, nonetheless, carry us back to the landscape of one thousand years ago: they are comforting and small-scale features which we can readily visualise in the landscape. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
charter boundary clauses, grey poplar, wood germander, des altenglischen, plant photographed, attested independently, syntactic groups, headword entry, spelling history, other poplars, charter bounds, quotation paragraph, black poplar, white leek, white poplar, boundary landmarks, white horehound, native status, attested meaning, early spellings, first clement, black alder, popular etymology, plant names, hybrid formations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Cambridge University Press, Anglo-Saxon England, English Place-Name Society, West Riding of Yorkshire, British Isles, Oxford University Press, Middle English, English Place-Name Survey, British Library, William Turner, Great Britain, North Riding of Yorkshire, Clark Hall, Middle Ages, East Riding of Yorkshire, Rune Poem, Vitellius Ciii, Late Antique, University of Toronto, Clarendon Press, Medieval Plant-Names, English Studies, Brussels Glossary, English Place-Name Elements New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 7 pages
- The Oxford English Dictionary (20 Volume Set) (Vols 1-20) by John Simpson on 4 pages
- New Flora of the British Isles by Clive Anthony Stace on 4 pages
- Flora of the British Isles by A. R. Clapham on 4 pages
- Place-Names in the Landscape: The Geographical Roots of Britain's Place-Names by Margaret Gelling on page 36, page 76, and page 223
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