Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages: Comparative Contexts

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Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages

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Edited by Michael D. J. Bintley, University of Southampton, Pippa Salonius

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781805432616
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805432616

Subjects:: Literature, Life Sciences, European and World Literature: General Interest, Ecology and Conservation
Series:: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages

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Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-xii

List of Contributors
pp xiii-xiii

Acknowledgements
pp xiv-xv

List of Abbreviations
pp xvi-xvi

Introduction: The Surrounding Forest
pp 1-11

1 - Mother Earth, Sister Moon and the Great Forest of Tāne
pp 12-65

2 - Beowulf’s Foliate Margins: The Surrounding Forest in Early Medieval England
pp 66-85

3 - Bone, Stone, Wood: Encountering Material Ecologies in Early Medieval Sculpture
pp 86-112

4 - ‘Mervoillous fu li engineres que croix fist de fust, non de pierre’: Materiality and Vernacular Theology in the Wood of the Cross Legend
pp 113-131

5 - The Evolution of Relational Tree-Diagrams from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Century: Visual Devices and Models of Knowledge
pp 132-153

6 - From Forest to Orchard: Arboreal Areas as Mnemotechnic Supports in the Middle Ages
pp 154-183

7 - The Vegetal Imaginary in Exemplary Literature: The Case of the Ci nous dit
pp 184-201

8 - Adam’s Sister: Tree Symbolism in Premodern Mystical Islamic Cosmology
pp 202-227

Concluding Reflections
pp 228-232

Appendix: Further Reading
pp 233-240

Bibliography
pp 241-276

Index
pp 277-290

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