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Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses (edition 1997)

by Robin Whiteman

Series: Brother Cadfael Mysteries (companion)

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Brother Cadfael, the much-loved medieval sleuth created by Ellis Peters, is depicted in the Chronicles as an enthusiastic gardener and herbalist, often excusing himself from his daily offices to tend the abbey gardens or work in his herbarium. He is also renowned for his great knowledge of plants, especially the exotic varieties he bought back to England from his travels throughout the Christian and Muslim worlds to raise and perfect in his own garden in Shrewsbury.… (more)
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Title:Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses
Authors:Robin Whiteman
Info:Bulfinch (1997), Edition: 1st U.S. ed, Hardcover
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Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses by Robin Whiteman

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A book that caters to specific interests; it provides a discussion of Brother Cadfael's herbs and what they may have been used for, including illustration and discussion from both the Cadfael Chronicles and medieval herbals. If you're interested in the herbal aspects of Brother Cadfael's adventures, this book will fascinate you. ( )
1 vote CaUplWL | Dec 27, 2008 |
Beautiful photographs. Quotes throughout from Ellis Peters books on Brother Cadfael; his use of plants as medicine or just references in general...makes one forget he's a fictional character ! Listing (Chronicles)of every book each plant is mentioned in (A to Z chapters). ( )
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To Edith Pargeter (1913-1995)
He had never been quite so acutely aware of the particular quality and function of November, its ripeness and its hushed sadness. The year proceeds not in a straight line through the seasons, but in a circle that brings the world and man back to the dimness and mystery in which both began, and out of which a new seed-time and a new generation are about to begin. Old men, thought Cadfael, believe in that new beginning, but experience only the ending. It may be that God is reminding me that I am approaching my November. Well, why regret it? November has beauty, has seen the harvest into the barns, even laid by next year's seed. No need to fret about not being allowed to stay and sow it, someone else will do that. So go contentedly into the earth with the moist, gentle, skeletal leaves, woven to cobweb fragility, like the skins of very old men, that bruise and stain at the mere brushing of the breeze, and flower into brown blotches as the leaves into rotting gold. The colours of late autumn are the colours of the sunset: the farewell of the year and the farewell of the day. And of the life of man? Well, if it ends in a flourish of gold, that is no bad ending - Brother Cadfael's Penance
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Cadfael's skills of herbalist, apothecary and healer were mostly learned, without formal training, in the Holy Land from both Saracen and Syrian physicians.
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Brother Cadfael, the much-loved medieval sleuth created by Ellis Peters, is depicted in the Chronicles as an enthusiastic gardener and herbalist, often excusing himself from his daily offices to tend the abbey gardens or work in his herbarium. He is also renowned for his great knowledge of plants, especially the exotic varieties he bought back to England from his travels throughout the Christian and Muslim worlds to raise and perfect in his own garden in Shrewsbury.

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