Publications

Selected publications from our research group members.

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Debby Banham, ‘From field to feast: the life (and afterlife) course of cereal crops in early medieval England’, in Thijs Porck and Harriet Soper, ed., Early Medieval English Life Courses (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022) pp. 287–318

Debby Banham, ‘Plant remains from B series samples in trench XXI’ and ‘Plant remains from various contexts from the 10th/11th century onwards’, in H. R. Hurst with L. F. Pitts and A.V. Saunders, Gloucester: The Roman Forum and Post-Roman Sequence at the City Centre (Gloucester: Gloucester Archaeological Publications, 2020), pp. 76–7 and 151–4

Debby Banham (with Rosamond Faith), Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)

Debby Banham, ‘Insular agricultures: comparisons, contrasts, connections’, in Mary Clayton, Alice Jorgenson and Juliet Mullins, ed., England, Ireland and the Insular World: Textual and Material Connections in the Early Middle Ages (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017) pp. 29–40

Debby Banham, ‘Lectun and orceard: a preliminary survey of the evidence for horticulture in Anglo-Saxon England’, in Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Brian W. Schneider, ed., The Anglo-Saxons: The World through their Eyes, BAR British Series 595 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014), pp. 33–48

Debby Banham, ‘“In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread”: cereals and cereal production in the Anglo-Saxon landscape’, in Nicholas J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan, ed., The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010), pp. 175–92

Debby Banham, ‘The staff of life: cross and blessings in Anglo-Saxon cereal production’, in Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Louise Jolly and Catherine E. Karkov, ed., Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2010) pp. 279–318

Debby Banham, ‘The Old English Nine Herbs Charm’, in Miri Rubin, ed., Medieval Christianity in Practice (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009) pp. 189–93

Debby Banham, ‘Be hlafum and wyrtum: food plants in Anglo-Saxon society and economy’, in C. P. Biggam, ed., From Earth to Art: the Many Aspects of the Plant World in Anglo-Saxon England (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003), pp. 119–31

Debby Banham, ‘Investigating the Anglo-Saxon materia medica: Latin, Old English and archaeobotany’, in Robert Arnott, ed., The Archaeology of Medicine, BAR International Series 1046 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002) pp. 95–9

Debby Banham, ‘Herbs in Anglo-Saxon medicine’, Herbs 23.4 (1998), 8–9

Debby Banham, ‘A ninth-century monastic herb garden’, Herbs 21.1 (1996), 22–3

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Kasia Boddy, Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)

Kasia Boddy, Geranium (London: Reaktion, 2013)

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Bonnie Lander Johnson (forthcoming) Shakespeare’s Plants: Botany and Belief in the Elizabethan London

Bonnie Lander Johnson (ed.) (forthcoming) Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Bonnie Lander Johnson (Forthcoming), ‘‘Fairy Bowers’ and ‘Stately Cedars’: Shakespeare’s Queenly Flowers and the Statecraft of Elizabeth I,’ Beautiful Blossoms in the Tudor and Stuart Courts (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).

Bonnie Lander Johnson, ‘“The blood of English shall manure the ground”: the almanac in Richard II’s vision of soil and body management’, in Hilary Eklund (ed.), Ground-Work: Soil Science in Renaissance Literature (Duquesne University Press, 2017), 59-78.

Bonnie Lander Johnson, ‘Blood, Milk, Poison: Romeo and Juliet’s tragedy of “green” desire and corrupted blood’, Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), 134-150.

Bonnie Lander Johnson (Under Review), ‘Iconoclast Trees in Shakespeare and the Ballad Tradition’, Shakespeare Journal special edition: ‘Shakespeare and Gardens’, edited by Todd Borlik.

Bonnie Lander Johnson (With Beth Dubow) ‘Allegories of Creation: Glassmaking, Forests and Fertility in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi’, Renaissance Drama 45 (2017), 107-137.

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Claudia Tobin, ‘Botanical Colour: Garden Writing, Victorian to Modern’, chapter for The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants, ed. by Bonnie Lander Johnson (in preparation for CUP, 2022)

Claudia Tobin, ‘Doing a mixed bunch in a natural way’: Flower painting and still life’, Ivon Hitchens: Space Through Colour (Pallant House Gallery, 2019)