In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.

The first study to analyze print vernacular herbals from the standpoint of gender, this book also recognizes the rhetorical agenda of female writers who claim h

The global popularity of herbal supplements and the promise they hold in treating various disease states has caused an unprecedented interest in understanding t

This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth cent