| Titre | La greffe et les métamorphoses du jardin andalou au Moyen Age XIe-XIIe siècles | |
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| Auteur | Lucie Bolens | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 68, 1977 | |
| Page | 93-106 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Graft and the Metamorphoses of Gardens in Andalusia (11th-12th Centuries).
Grafting such as it appears in Hispano-Arabie treatises dating from the Middle Ages, presents the double caracter of having modified the Mediterranean garden much before the Renaissance and of having played a fundamental role in the history of botanical classification — a role that has remained till now totally unrecognized, that of a link between the Ancients and the Renaissance.
Renaissance authors such as Matthiolo, Cesalpino, O. de Serres, have said nothing concerning these matters that cannot be found already in the work of the Moroccan writer al-Gassani (16th century). And even in the 12th century, the essential can be traced in the description of plants given by the "Anonymous Botanist of Seville". Now the importance given to grafting by Hispano-Arab agronomists, their efforts to establish affinities between plants, show that if grafting, in the Andalusian Middle Ages, became the preliminary step to a new botanical classification, it was through these profuse, and at times even aberrant, empirical experiences; and if needs be, further proof is seen in the fact that Matthiolo quotes the Arabs. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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