In Chapter 3 Whiteman makes a case for Ellis’ seasonal progress in the twenty Cadfael novels, ending with But enough survived for a chapter on the monastic garden, where we learnĪs the followers of the Benedictine Rule had a Christian duty to care for the sick and needy, ‘before all things and above all things’, plants were grown with special emphasis on their medicinal and healing virtues. You’d think at least a few of Henry’s New Men would have recognized the value of these priceless texts and rescued them, but noooo-oooo. Whole shiploads, we are told, were sent abroad to the book-binders, that vellum or parchment might be cut up in their trade. First comes a first-rate introduction, the most harrowing part of which details the destruction of so many monastic herbals during Henry VIII’s Dissolution Here Whiteman delves into Cadfael’s garden, where so many ills were treated and so many mysteries solved. Robin Whiteman has made something of a career out of creating works based around the world of Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael novels (see also Cadfael Country and The Cadfael Companion). Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses by Robin Whiteman
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