Description: Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.
Brief description: PETER MURRAY JONES is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK.
Review Quotes: [A] fascinating collection. [...] On many different levels it opens up a new world of the association of plants to medicine.-- "BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE on-line review"