Horticulture and Health in the Middle Ages: Images from the Tacuinum Sanitatis

@article{Janick2010HorticultureAH,  title={Horticulture and Health in the Middle Ages: Images from the Tacuinum Sanitatis},  author={Jules Janick and Marie Christine Daunay and Harry S. Paris},  journal={Hortscience},  year={2010},  volume={45},  pages={1592-1596},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:86510163}}
An illustrated manuscript from the late Middle Ages that provides information on the interre- lationship of horticulture and health is presented and images and associated text are analyzed that compare modern and me- dieval feelings about the role of hortsicultural plants and health.

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