Masters Thesis

Magiferous Plants in Medieval English Herbalism

This study examines thirteen English vernacular medical texts, dating from approximately the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, for evidence of magiferous, or "magic-bearing," plants. These are plants with both mundane and magical uses. The study finds that magiferous plants are widely distributed across the timespan covered by the texts examined. Included are a detailed analysis of thirteen magiferous plants and a list of all species identified as magiferous.

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