Author: John GerardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Gerard's Herball
Author: John Gerard“The” Herball, Or, Generall Historie of Plants
Author: John GerardThe herball
Author: John GerardThe Herbal, Or General History of Plants
Author: John Gerard200 Illustrations from Gerard's Herbal
Author: John GerardPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486996581
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
From a rare and vast storehouse of botanical information -- beautiful, royalty-free illustrations of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and garden flowers. Ideal for craftwork, these handsome illustrations will also delight herbal enthusiasts. 214 black-and-white illustrations.
Gerard's Herbal
Author: John GerardPublisher:
ISBN: 9781859580516
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
'Gerald's Herbal', or 'The Generall Historie of Plantes', is the fourth gathering in 400 years. This edition spans 428 pages, 323 illustrations taken from the original, and contains 300 entries, many of them unseen for centuries.
The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes
Author: John GerardEarly Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
Author: Sarah NevillePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest
Author: John GerardPublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586174509
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Truth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, "The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest." This autobiography of a Jesuit priest in Elizabethan England is a most remarkable document and John Gerard, its author, a most remarkable priest in a time when to be a Catholic in England courted imprisonment and torture; to be a priest was treason by act of Parliament. Smuggled into England after his ordination and dumped on a Norfolk beach at night, Fr. Gerard disguised himself as a country gentleman and traveled about the country saying Mass, preaching and ministering to the faithful in secret always in constant danger. The houses in which he found shelter were frequently raided by priest hunters; priest-holes, hide-outs and hair-breadth escapes were part of his daily life. He was finally caught and imprisoned, and later removed to the infamous Tower of London where he was brutally tortured. The stirring account of his escape, by means of a rope thrown across the moat, is a daring and magnificent climax to a true story which, for sheer narrative power and interest, far exceeds any fiction. Here is an accurate and compelling picture of England when Catholics were denied their freedom to worship and endured vicious persecution and often martyrdom. But more than the story of a single priest, "The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest" epitomizes the constant struggle of all human beings through the ages to maintain their freedom. It is a book of courage and of conviction whose message is most timely for our age.
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution
Author: Agnes Robertson ArberPublisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Botanical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description