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Verlag: Bodleian Library Dez 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 185124445XISBN 13: 9781851244454
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A beautiful gift edition bringing together collective nouns for more than 100 quatrapeds from racehorses to giraffes. Each one is illustrated with charming woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, and there is a foreword from 'Countdown's' Susie Dent. 144 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bodleian Library Dez 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1851244379ISBN 13: 9781851244379
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet calls for quinces to make pies for the marriage feast of her daughter. This fruit was traditionally connected with weddings and fertility, as echoed by John Gerard in his herbal where he also explained that eating quinces would 'bring forth wise children, and of good understanding'.Taking fifty quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, Margaret Willes gives these botanical references their social context to provide an intriguing and original focus on daily life in Tudor and Jacobean England, looking in particular at medicine, cookery, gardening and folklore traditions.Exquisitely illustrated with unique hand-painted engravings from the Bodleian Library's copy of John Gerard's herbal of 1597, this book marries the beauty of Shakespeare's lines with charming contemporary renderings of the plants he described so vividly.