European Ethnobotany Bibliography
Classical Period
Aristotle. 1963. On Plants. In Selected Botanical Papers. Edited by Irving W. Knobloch. Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Gunther, Rovert T. 1968. The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. Hatner Publishing Co., London.
Llyod, G.E.R. (ed.). 1978. Hippocratic Writings. London.
Nelson, Stephanie A. 1998. God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil. Oxford University Press. New York.
Pliny. Naturalis historia.
Riddle, John. Eve’s Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Harvard University Press.
Sallares, Robert. 1991. The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York.
Theophrastus. 1961. Enquiry into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs. Vols. I & II. Translation by Sir Arthur Hort, Bart., M. A. Harvard University Press. Cambridge.
_______. De plantis, De causis plantarum.
Thompson, George Raynor. 1941. Theophrastus on Plant Flavors and Odors Studies on the Philosophical and Scientific Significance of De Causis Plantarum II Accompanied by Translation and Notes, Princeton University Ph.D. Dissertation. Available at University of Washington in hardcopy (not microfiche) call # 888.9 T343cazth
Middle Ages
Arber, Agnes. 1986. Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution, a chapter in the history of Botany 1470-1670. Third Edition. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
Anderson, Frank J. 1977. An Illustrated History of the Herbals. Columbia
University Press. NY.
Blunt, S. and S. Raphael. 1994. The Illustrated Herbal. Thames and Hudson.
Cockanyne, Rev. Osward (ed.). 1864. Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, 2 vols. London.
Collins, Minta. 2000. Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions. The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture. . Published in the North America by the University of Toronto Press.
Culpeper, Nicholaus. 1814. Culpeper’s Complete Herbal. W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd., New York. [RS164.C8 in main stacks and in reference]
Eamon, William. 1994. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton University Press. NY. Available through Cascade. Marginal possibility as seminar text, too long and dry?
Fuchs, Leonhart. 1542. The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: De historia stirpium commentarii insignes. Edited by Frederick G. Meyer, Emily Emmart Trueblood, and John L. Heller. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1999.
Gerard, John. 1975. The Herbal: or General History of Plants. Dover Publications. NY [QK41 G3]
*Grant, Edward. 1996. The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts. Cambridge University Press.
Hughes, Muriel Joy. 1943. Women Healers in Medieval Life and Literature. Books for Libraries Press. NY.
Kren, Claudia. 1985. Medieval Science and Technology: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Garland Publishing, Inc. NY.
Landsberg, Sylvia. 1996. The Medieval Garden. Thames and Hudson.
MacKinney, Loren. 1937. Early Medieval Medicine. Baltimore.
McLean, Teresa. 1980. Medieval English Gardens. The Viking Press. New York.
Muller, Jurgen Leo. 1998. Love Potions and Ointment of Witches: Historical Aspects of the Nightshade Alkaloids. Clinical Toxicology 36 (6): 617-627.
Riddle, John. Eve’s Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Harvard University Press.
Salisbury, 1994. The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages. Routledge. NY.
Siraisi, Nancy G. 1990. Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
Stannard, Jerry. 1999. Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ashgate Publishing Limited. Aldershot. [QK99 A1 S73]
Swan, Claudia. 1998. The Clutius Botanical Watercolors: Plants and Flowers of the Renaissance. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers. Gorgeous book!
Turner, William. 1551. A New Herball, Part I. Edited by George T. L. Chapman and Marilyn N. Tweddle. With indexes compiled by Frank McCombie. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
Turner, William. A New Herball, Parts II and III. Edited by George T. L. Chapman, Frank McCombie, and Anne Wesencraft. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
Von Bingen, Hildegard. 1998. Physica. Healing Arts Press.
Wall, C. Cameron and E.A. Underwood. 1963. A History of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. London.
Renaissance
Aymonin, G. G. 1989. The Besler Florilegium: Plants of the Four Seasons. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers.
Barker, N. 1994. Hortus Eystettensis: the Bishop’s Garden and Besler’s Magnificent Book. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers.
Carr, D. J. (ed.). 1983. Sydney Parkinson, artist of the Cook’s Endeavour Voyage. British Natural History Museum.
Dash, Mike. 1999. Tulipomania. Three Rivers Press. NY.
Daston, Lorraine and Katharine Park. 1998. Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750. Zone Books. NY.
Dickenson, Victoria. 1998. Drawn from Life: Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World. University of Toronto Press. Toronto. [QH46.5 D52]
Ellis, John. 1770. Directions for Bringing Over Seeds and Plants from the East Indies. London.
Goodall, Charles. 1664. An Historical Account of the Colledge’s Proceedings against Empiricks. London.
Hole, Christina. 1953. The English Housewife in the Seventeenth Century. London.
Jacob, James R. 1998. The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700. Humanities Press. New Jersey. Excellent seminar book. Good intro.
Jardine, Lisa. 1999. Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution. Doubleday. NY. Good seminar book. A few slow places in book.
King, James I. 1604. A Counterblaste to Tobacco. R. Barker. London.
Korney, F. 1993. Albrecht Durer and the Animal and Plant Studies of the Renaissance. A New York Graphic Society Book.
Monardes, Nicholas (ed. S. Gaselee). 1925. Joyfull Newes out of the Newe Found Worlde. London.
Meyer, Frederick; Emily Trueblood, and John Heller. 1999. The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: De historia stripium commentarii insignes, 1542. (notable commentaries on the history of plants). Stanford University Press. Stanford, CA. [QK41.M49 vols 1 & 2 in the reference section]
O’Brian, Patrick. 1987. Joseph Banks: A Life. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. [QH31 B19 O27]
Schiebinger, Londa. 1996. The Loves of the Plants. Scientific American ___: 110-115.
Smith, Pamela H. 1994. The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Princeton University Press. NY. Seems a bit dry for a seminar book but might be a good reference for lectures.
Thomson, George. 1665. Galeno-Pale: or, a Chymical Trial of the Galenists.
Traister, Barbara Howard. 2001. The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. Available through Cascade. Not a seminar text, but good as a reference. Talks about College of Physicians persecuting him for practicing alternative medicine and occult.
Varey, Simon (ed.). 2000. The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández. Stanford University Press. Stanford, CA.
Withering, William. 1776. A Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain. Birmingham, England.
Modern Era
Aaronson, J. K. 1985. An Account of Foxglove and its Medical Uses 1785-1985. Oxford University Press.
Buckingham, Nelsa M. and Alice Racer Anderson (ed.). 1994. Plant Life of Washington Territory: Northern Pacific Railroad Survey, Botanical Report. 1853-1861. Excerpts from The Natural History of Washington Territory 1859 and Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean 1860 by James Graham Cooper, Physician, Naturalist, Explorer 1830-1902. Douglasia Occasional Papers, Vol. 5. Washington Native Plant Society. Woodinville, Washington.
Conrad, Barnaby. 1988. Absinthe: History in a Bottle. Chronicle Books. San Francisco, CA.
Curtis, D. Alva. 1836. Discussions Between several Members of the Regular Medical Faculty and the Thomsonian Botanic Physicians on the Comparative Merits of their Respective Systems. Columbus, Ohio.
Dickenson, Victoria. 1998. Drawn from Life: Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World. University of Toronto Press. Toronto. [QH46.5.D52]
Findlen, Paula. 1994. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. University of California Press. Berkeley.[Q105 I8 F56]
Grove, Richard H. 1995. Green Imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island Edens, and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge University Press.
Haoines, Joe E. MD. 1998. Absinthe: Return of the Green Fairy. The Journal of Oklahoma State Medical Association 91 (7):
Irmscher, Christoph. 1999. The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick. [QH21 U5 175]
Kramer, J. 1996. Women of Flowers: a Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators. Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
Sabbagh, Karl. 1999. A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. New York.
Schiebinger, Londa. 2000. Exotic Abortifacients: The Global Politics of Plants in the 18th Century. Endeavour 24:117-21.
Shteir, Ann. 1996. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in England 1760-1860. The Johns Hopkins University Press. London.
Skelton, John. 1855. The Epitome of the Botanic Practice of Medicine. Leeds.
General
Cosgrove, Denis. 1984. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. Barnes & Noble Books. Totowa, NJ.
Douglas, William Orville. 1967. Farewell to Texas: a vanishing wilderness. McGraw-Hill. NY.
Griggs, Barbara. 1997. Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine. Healing Arts Press. Rochester, Vermont.
Lehner, E. and J. Lehner. 1962. Folklore and Odysseys of Food and Medicinal Plants. Tudor Publishing. New York.
Morton, Julia F. 1977. Major Medicinal Plants: Botany, Culture and Uses. Charles C. Thomas Publishers. Springfield, IL.
Peters, Abram S. Folk Etymology Dictionary.
Taylor, Norman. 1965. Plant Drugs that Changed the World. New York.
Internet Sources
Vatican. – www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/g-nature/Botany.html