Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade

Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, works of botany underwent a radical change in the English book trade. A genre that was once produced in smaller cheaper formats became lavishly produced, authoritative editions. But asEarly Modern Herbals and the Book Trade(Cambridge UP, 2022)shows, the relationships between making, producing, and consuming of botanical and medical knowledge was much more fluid. Today I am discussing this new book with the author Sarah Neville. Sarah Neville is Associate Professor of English and Creative Director of Lord Denney's Players at Ohio State University. Sarah serves as an assistant editor of theNew Oxford Shakespeareand an associate coordinating editor of theDigital Renaissance Editions, as well as the writer/producer/director of the documentaryLooking for Hamlet, 1603, available on Youtube.

John Yargois Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. He recently received his PhD in English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in the environmental humanities and early modern culture. His articles have been published or are forthcoming in theJournal for Early Modern Culture Studies,Studies in Philology, Early Theatre, and Shakespeare Studies.