Resources

Bibliographies

Medieval

Collins, Minta, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: British Library, 2000)

Dendle, Peter, and Alain Touwaide, Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008)

Epstein, Stephen A., The Medieval Discovery of Nature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Fisher, Celia,  Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2004)

Landsberg, Sylvia, The Medieval Garden (London: British Museum Press, 1996)

McLean, Teresa, Medieval English Gardens (London: Collins, 1981)

Rawcliffe, Carol, ‘”Delectable Sightes and Fragrant Smelles”: Gardens and Health in Late Medieval and Early Modern England’, Garden History, 36 (2008), 3-21

Rudd, Gillian, Greenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)

Van Arsdall, Anne, Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine (New York: Routledge, 2002)

Early Modern

Borlik, Todd Andrew, ed., Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance: an ecocritical anthology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Bushnell, Rebecca Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (London: Cornell University Press, 2003)

Calhoun, Joshua, The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking and the Ecology of Texts (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Eklund, Hilary, ed., Groundwork: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Duquesne University Press, 2017)

Fleming, Juliet, ‘Changed opinion as to flowers’ in Renaissance Paratexts, ed. Helen Smith and Louise Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 48-64

Horowitz, M. C., Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998)

Irving-Stonebraker, Sarah ‘From Little Gidding to Virginia’ in Seventeenth Century 33.2 (2018), 183–194. 

Knight, Leah, Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-century Plants and Plant Culture (London: Routledge, 2016)

Knight, Leah, Reading Green in Early Modern England (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014)

Martin, Randall, Shakespeare and Ecology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)

Neville, Sarah, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Yale, Elizabeth, ‘With Slips and Scraps: How Early Modern Naturalists Invented the Archive’, Book History, 12 (2009), 1–36.

Yale, Elizabeth, Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Ritvo, Harriet, ‘At the Edge of the Garden: Nature and Domestication in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Britain’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 55 (1992), pp. 363-378

Willes, Margaret, ‘Hard Times’, in The Gardens of the British Working Class (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), pp.141-169

Critical Plant Studies

Aloi, Giovanni, Caroline Picard, Lucy Davis, eds., Why Look at Plants? The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art (Leiden: Brill, 2019)

Cielemęcka, Olga, and Marianna Szczygielska, ‘Thinking the Feminist Vegetal Turn in the Shadow of Douglas-firs: An Interview with Catriona Sandilands’, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 5 (2019), 1-19 https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/32863/25710

Cooper, David E., A Philosophy of Gardens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Gagliano, Monica, John C. Ryan, and Patricia I. Vieira, eds., The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017)

Harrison, Robert Pogue, Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2008)

Laist, Randy, ed., Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013)

Lomeña, Andrés, ‘Seeding Planthroposcenes: An interview with Natasha Myers’, The Ethnobotanical Assembly, 6 (2020)

Marder, Michael, Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (New York : Columbia University Press, 2013)

Marder, Michael, The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)

Sandilands, Catriona, ‘Fear of a Queer Plant?’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 23 (2017), 419-429

Vieira, Patricia, Monica Gagliano, and John Ryan, eds., The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015)

Plants and Climate

Gibson, Christopher R., and Andrew T. Warren, ‘Keeping time with trees: climate change, forest resources, and experimental relations with the future’, Geoforum, 108 (2020), 325-337

Haraway, Donna, and Anna Tsing, ‘Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing’, interviewed by G. Mitman, Edge Effects (2019), https://edgeeffects.net/haraway-tsing-plantationocene/

Ryan, John Charles, ‘Planting the Eco-Humanities? Climate Change, Poetic Narratives, and Botanical Lives’, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 8, (2016), 61-70 http://rupkatha.com/V8/n3/08_Eco-Humanities.pdf

Additional Resources

Digitised Manuscripts: Medieval

‘Nature Printing’ in eighteenth-century botany: CUL MS Add.10141

Lisa Mullen:  ‘Free Thinking: Eco-Criticism’, BBC Radio 3, 2 February 2021.

Other Voices in Garden History: a series of lectures run by the Garden Trust

Association for Literature and the Environment

Grow a Garden From Seed: find out more

Saffron: Global History, Cambridge Stories

The Lemon Tree Trust: garden initiatives and agricultural businesses in refugee communities

Horatio’s Garden: gardens in NHS spinal injury centres