The Capitulare de villis, the ordinance for the imperial estates issued in Charlemagne’s name about the year 800, lists the plants to be grown on them, tansy among them. He died in 814, so an entry that cites the ordinance cites an authority three centuries older than Hildegard of Bingen.
7 Entries in the Materia Medica
The Thinking Press Club
Read What Charlemagne Says
Each passage in which the database cites Charlemagne, entry by entry.
For Club Members. Create a free account before January 1, 2027 and confirm your email: you become a Charter Member, and it is yours for good.
- FennelFoeniculum vulgare, seed and water.
- HouseleekSempervivum tectorum.
- LovageLevisticum officinale, of the carrot family.
- MadderRubia tinctorum. A prickly perennial whose weak stalks often lie along the ground, sown si
- RosemarySalvia rosmarinus (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis).
- SageSalvia officinalis.
- TansyTanacetum vulgare.
