Plant Lore in England: 1600-1800
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Plant Lore in England: 1600-1800
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/056
Creator(s): Drury, Susan
Date(s): 1984
Size and medium: ix, 393 bound typed leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409952
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.Phil. thesis surveying the use of plants in material culture, as food, in calendar and social customs, in medicine, orthodox religion and the supernatural, in popular belief, divination, charms and dreams. The thesis is a retrospective study drawing on historical records (books, articles and manuscripts).
Four appendices provide information on areas of potato cultivation in England (1600-1800), bibliographies of English books on agricultural processes (1600-1697) and books of recipes (1600-1699), and a bibliography of seventeenth and eighteenth century English herbals.
The thesis contains also a number of maps showing the distribution of plant-related calendar customs (at Easter, May, Christmas times), areas of recorded observance relating to wassailing, hemp-seed and sage divination, regional names for the corn doll, and areas of recorded belief in the association of certain plants with bad luck and as omens.
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