[Herbalist] [Fwd: Eisental: Conference on Medieval Gardens]

[Tara Boroson]

-Thoughy this might be of interest here.  I'm trying to decide if it's
practical to go With Baby.

-Magdalena

>The Center for Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University has a
>mini-conference every spring, focused on a single topic.  This year's theme
is
>Health and Healing in the Medieval Garden and it will be held April
>4-5 in State
>College, PA.  Presentations run from Friday morning through Sunday noon.
>There's a single track, as follows:
>
>Friday morning
>Mark Horton, U. of Bristol: Archaeological Evidence for the Monastic Garden
>Peter Murray-Jones, Cambridge: Herbs and the Medieval Surgeon
>Terence Scully, Wilfrid Laurier U: The Cook as Dietician in the
>Medieval Garden
>
>Friday afternoon
>Linda Voigts, U of MO: Plants and Planets: Connecting the Celestial with the
>Vegetable in Late Medieval Texts
>Marilyn Stoksad, U of Kansas: The Alchemists' Garden
>
>Special session on the Penn State AT&T Medieval Garden (!!) with
>Deirdre Larkin
>of the Cloisters and NY Botanical Gardens, and Martin McGann of PSU.
>
>Saturday morning
>Peter Dendle, PSU: Plants in the Medieval Cosmos: Medicine, Magic and
>Eco-Colonialism
>Walton Schalick, Washington U: Tools of the Trade: Garden-Medicine in
Medieval
>France
>Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian: Medicinal Plants in the 14th-century Eastern
>Mediterranean World
>
>...
>
>Friday only: $15
>Friday and Saturday: $25
>Friday lunch (salad buffet): $10.95
>Friday banquet: $30 -- "featuring period cuisine" and a "medieval
>drama related
>to health and healing"
>Saturday lunch is "on your own" but tables will be reserved in the
>Nittany Lion
>Inn
>There's a block of rooms reserved at the Days Inn in State College,
>and they say
>there are also a number of other hotels/motels in the area.