cosmopoiesis of mandragoras
by Leonie Brandner ; ed. by Marjolein van der Loo ; design by Elisa Piazzi
- Auteur(s)
- Leonie Brandner
- Editor(s)
- Marjolein van der Loo
- Uitgever, jaar
- Eindhoven : Onomatopee, 2024
- Omvang
- 196 p., geïllustreerd, 20 cm.
- Drager
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-94-93382-06-0
The mandragora plant is one of the best recorded gynecological herbal substances. It is also the only plant in the European context historically depicted as a half-human-half-plant-creature. The mandragora is haunted by stories. Could its many stories hold a key for luring our minds off paths that have been sufficiently trodden down? What if the mandragora holds the potential for new orders and for world-making; for a cosmopoeisis of mandragoras. Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None explores the medicinal and magical mandragora plant, and the many stories that grew around it across history. Brandner's writing moves from the beginning of recorded storytelling to ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology, tracing the lines the mandragora has left behind in medicinal books, folklore and eventually the impact the plant had in the hunt on so-called witches in the Middle Ages. Weaving her own perception and encounters with the plant through her historical research, Brandner creates a kaleidoscopical image of human-plant-imaginations across time.
- Persoon als onderwerp
- Leonie Brandner
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 11C - 4: Antropoceen
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