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Re: academic research engines

 
>Secondary is fine.  The specific problem that I encountered yesterday was concerning Charlemagne.    I have >a list of 72 plants that he apparently required people to grow.  The list is in a small book that I picked up last >yr that was written in german and translated to english.
 
I though I was the only person in the world whose two interests were gardening and early medieval history.
 
Sorry to be so late, but it took a while to find -- half find, really -- the reference I was looking for. I knew I had written about it, and I have over 700 columns quickly searchable on my hard drive, but this one went back to ... ahem ... the dark ages, dusty file cabinets with actual paper that went through a typewriter.
 
There was an 8th century monk named Walahfrid who wrote a book on gardening. I have long since lost my notes, but fortunately it is referred to in The Plan of St. Gall. Walahfrid Strabo, "Hortulus", Oayne and Blunt, editors, 1966. The cite does not give the publisher, but I'm pretty sure it was published by the horticulture library at Melon University in Pittsburg. I have tried for years to find a copy, but without success.
 
Another source would be the Plan of St. Gall. This was slightly after Charlemagne, about 830. The actual book would crush your copy table, but I have a shorter version, still pretty big. It has a plan of part of the vegetable garden with the crops grown identified. (Would you like me to send you the list? Email me off list. The complete book may have more. There is a reference to an article by Wolfgang Sorrensen in Studien, 1962, about the gardens of St. Gall. No other information given.
 
I'd be interested in knowing what book you have?
 
D
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