Karen Reeds

Biographic Data

ID1022946
NAMEKaren Reeds
GIVEN NAMESKaren
FAMILY NAMEReeds
SIGNATUREREEDS K
AFFILIATIONSNational Coalition of Independent Scholars
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR60
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade

    Open AccessKaren ReedsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2025

    Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany. Sarah Neville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 290 pp. $99.99. Open Access. - Volume 78 Issue 3

  • Principles of Anatomy According to the Opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius

    Open AccessKaren ReedsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2019

    Principles of Anatomy According to the Opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius. Vivian Nutton, ed. Routledge Early Modern Translations. London: Routledge, 2017. xii + 190 pp. 99.99. - Volume 72 Issue 2

  • Sociable Knowledge

    Open AccessKaren ReedsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2017

    Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain. Elizabeth Yale. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. xi + 346 pp. $69.95. - Volume 70 Issue 2

  • Searching beyond the Medical Heritage Library

    Karen ReedsARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2015

    Searching beyond the Medical Heritage Library:An Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/ Karen Reeds For medical historians who study the centuries when Latin was the primary language of learned discourse among Western physicians, the Internet era has opened startling new research opportunities. Rare book rooms have been generously digitizing their Latin medical books and manuscripts and sharing them o…

  • Houses No Warmer than Barns

    Open AccessKaren Reeds, Karen Reeds Karen ReedsARTICLEThe Pennsylvania Magazine of…2015

    Karen Reeds, Houses No Warmer than Barns: Peter Kalm on Fireplaces and Firewood in Colonial Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 139, No. 3 (October 2015), pp. 349-352

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    Open AccessKaren ReedsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2015

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  • Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500–1675)

    Open AccessKaren ReedsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2015

    Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500–1675): Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution. Dirk van Miert, ed. Warburg Institute Colloquia 23. London: The Warburg Institute, 2013. ix + 268 pp. £50. - Volume 68 Issue 3

  • John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue (1660)

    Karen ReedsARTICLEIntellectual History Review2013

    John Ray, John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue (1660) trans. and ed. by P.H. Oswald and C.D. Preston. (Ray Society Series, vol. 173) London: Ray Society, 612 pp. £75.00. ISBN 0–903874–43–1; ISBN 978–0903

  • All the Tools Fit to Print

    Karen ReedsARTICLETechnology and Culture2013

    All the Tools Fit to Print Karen Reeds (bio) Mark Bland, A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts. Susan Dackerman, ed., Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. How big was the rhinoceros? More precisely, how big was the animal Albrecht Dürer portrayed in his famous 1515 woodcut? How big did the print's viewers think the creature was? And how big was the print itself? These questions are prompted by the brilliant cover d…

  • Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England

    Karen ReedsARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2011

  • Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden. Studies in Medieval and Reform Traditions 135

    Karen ReedsARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2010

  • M usa C liffortiana

    Karen ReedsARTICLEFood Culture & Society2009

    (2009). Musa Cliffortiana: Clifford's banana plant by Carl Linnaeus. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 561-563

  • Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

    Open AccessKaren ReedsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2008

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  • De materia medica . Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 38

    Open AccessKaren ReedsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2008

    Pedanius Dioscorides of Anarzarbus. De materia medica. Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 38. Trans. Lily Y. Beck. Hildesheim: Olms – Weidmann, 2005. xxxviii + 540 pp. index. €78. ISBN: 3-487-12881-0. - Alix Cooper. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 218 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978-0-521-87087-0. - Volume 61 Issue 2

  • A translation of Carl Linnaeus’s introduction to Genera plantarum (1737)

    Open AccessStaffan Müller-Wille, Karen ReedsARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2007Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Unlocking the Virtual Stacks

    Karen ReedsARTICLEAmerican Periodicals: A Journal…2007Cited by: 2

    Unlocking the Virtual Stacks Karen Meier Reeds (bio) My research in the history of botany and medicine relies heavily on early printed books and the transactions of the first scientific societies. Thanks to the libraries and scholars who have been scanning these works and generously making them available on the web, my [End Page 121] computer has become a doorway into the rare book collections of the world. These online facsimiles will never reve…

  • Eloge

    Vincent J Cirillo, Karen ReedsARTICLEIsis2007

  • Das "Buch der Natur" Konrads von Megenberg

    Karen Reeds, Karen Meier ReedsARTICLESpeculum2006

  • Die Krauterbuchhandschrift des Leonhart Fuchs (review)

    Karen ReedsARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    Reviewed by: Die Kräuterbuchhandschrift des Leonhart Fuchs Karen Reeds Leonhart Fuchs . Die Kräuterbuchhandschrift des Leonhart Fuchs. Edited by Brigitte Baumann, Helmut Baumann, and Susanne Baumann-Schleihauf. Stuttgart: Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2001. 504 pp. Ill. €69.00 (3-8001-3538-8). When Leonhart Fuchs published his beautifully illustrated herbal, De historia stirpium, in 1542 (with a German edition in 1543), he regarded it as the first installm…

  • Eating Right in the Renaissance (review)

    Karen ReedsARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    Reviewed by: Eating Right in the Renaissance Karen Reeds Ken Albala . Eating Right in the Renaissance. California Studies in Food and Culture, no. 2. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. ix + 315 pp. Ill. $39.95; £27.95 (0-520-22947-9). When did you last have dinner with friends and family without someone making a comment about the healthiness of the food? As a topic for conversation, the meal's nutritional content—carb…

  • When the botanist can't draw

    Karen ReedsARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews2004Cited by: 1

    Botany lessons have traditionally required students to draw plants as a way to understand basic plant morphology, and the resurgence of botany in the sixteenth century is closely tied to the publication of lifelike illustrations of plants. The founder of modern botany, Carolus Linnaeus (1707–78) made botany a broadly accessible subject through his binomial nomenclature and artificial system of classification. However, Linnaeus regarded botanical …

  • Medieval Herbals

    Karen ReedsARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    Minta Collins's very scholarly survey of medieval herbals has the unusual distinction of having been reviewed in the New Yorker (16 July 2001)—a tribute to the book's visual appeal and to the ever-growing popular interest in medicinal plants. For historians of medieval medicine and of herbal medicine in any period, the book is invaluable

  • The Flowering of Florence

    Open AccessKaren ReedsARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2003

    Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Gretchen A. Hirschauer. The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici. Aldershot and Burlington: Lund Humphries, 2002. 132 pp. + 99 col. and 2 b/w pls. illus. chron. bibl. 39.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-85331-857-3 (cl), 0-85331-871-9 (pbk). - Volume 56 Issue 4

  • Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Siena 1501-Trento 1578

    Karen ReedsARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    "If the mind could be pictured as well as the body, then a single image would serve for both Dioscorides and Mattioli." This verse, attached to a portrait of Pietro Andrea Mattioli published in 1563, neatly summed up his reputation in his [End Page 132] own day. Between 1544 and Mattioli's death in 1578, his Italian and Latin trans-lations of Dioscorides' De materia medica became the standard form in which his contemporaries encountered the class…

  • Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages andRenaissance , and

    Karen ReedsARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2001

    Jerry Stannard. Pristina Medicamenta: Ancient and Medieval Medical Botany. Edited by Katherine E. Stannard and Richard Kay. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Variorum, 1999. xxii + 324 pp. (Pagination follows that of the original publications.) $110.95 (0-860-78773-7)