Horn and Born's book on the Saint Gall Plan has an interesting section
on the garden of the monastery. Some herbs were grown there, if I
remember correctly.
Thomas Sullivan, OSB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francine Nicholson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 3:07 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: HERBS
>
> > From: Monastery Library [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> >
> > I have been asked to find material (references) on the monastic
> origins of
> > growing herbs in monasteries, especially in Italy.
> >
> > I have found some references (a bit general) on the COPAC catalogue,
> but
> > it
> > maybe someone has some more precise references within reach.
> >
> I'm not sure about Italy, but in Ireland and England, the
> earliest
> sources are related to healing. As the monasteries absorbed the
> healing
> functions that previously had been the jurisdiction of pre-Crhistian
> religious practitioners, they developed their knowledge of traditional
> healing methods and the growing of the main stock-in-trade, herbs.
>
> Francine Nicholson
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