IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 812: Garden Plants: Names and Introduction in Medieval Northern Europe, I
Tuesday 8 July 2008, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Stockholms Universitet / Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp |
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| Organiser: | Inger Larsson, Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet, Stockholms Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andreas Nord, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Stockholms Universitet |
| Paper 812-a | Cultivation in Words: A Swedish Early 16th-Century Adaptation of Columella's De re rustica (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Science |
| Paper 812-b | Native or Foreign?: What Can We Learn from Vernacular Plant Names? (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Science |
| Paper 812-c | Early Medieval or Late Baroque?: Myths and Facts in Documentary Sources concerning the Introduction and Early History of the Turk's-cap Lily (Lilium martagon L.) in Sweden, in a European Context of Lilies (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Bibliography, Science |
| Abstract | When and how were the garden plants and gardening introduced in Northern Europe? Earlier researchers have assumed that the establishment of the various monastic houses also led to an increase in the introduction of new plants and new gardening ideas. Recent research has shown that this is only partly true. By combining evidence from different sources like mentioning in medical and botanical literature, vernacular plant names, geographical distribution, relict plants, archaeology, fossils, folklore, and floristics, and bringing together researchers from Sweden, Norway, and Iceland we hope eventually to get a fuller picture of garden plants and gardening in medieval Northern Europe. |