This article examines how analogy, metaphor, and corporeality in the sixteenth century functioned as conceptual tools for understanding plants. Focusing on the editions of William Turner\u2019s A New Herbal<\/em>, we trace the evolution of the root, from an anthropomorphic or zoomorphic figure toward a distinct \u201croot-object.\u201d In doing so, we reassess the heuristic value of anthropomorphism in shaping pre-modern knowledge of living organisms and propose methodological frameworks to revitalize the study of plant conceptions in the early modern period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Botanique ; anthropomorphisme ; racines ; analogies ; William Turner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Botany; anthropomorphism; roots<\/a>, analogies; William Turner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tassanee Alleau<\/strong>, \u00ab Concevoir la plante par la racine \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque moderne : du passage de la figure anthropomorphique \u00e0 la racine-objet \u00bb, Essais<\/em> [En ligne], 25 | 2026, mis en ligne le 17 avril 2026, consult\u00e9 le 30 avril 2026. URL : http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/essais\/15256<\/a> ; DOI : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/163aj<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tassanee Alleau est artiste plasticienne dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e de l\u2019\u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019art et de design de Tours, docteure en histoire du Centre d\u2019\u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures de la Renaissance, ATER en histoire moderne \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Tours (UR CeTHiS). Sa th\u00e8se porte sur l\u2019histoire des plantes entre le XVIe<\/sup> et le XVIIIe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle, \u00e0 travers des prismes savant, m\u00e9dical, culturel et alimentaire. Ses recherches s\u2019\u00e9tendent \u00e9galement \u00e0 l\u2019histoire des corps, humains et non humains, et interrogent la place du v\u00e9g\u00e9tal dans les \u00e9cologies humaines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conceiving the Plant through the Root in the Modern Age: Some Methodological Tools for Considering the Transition from the Anthropomorphic Figure to the Root-Object Cet article analyse comment, au XVIe si\u00e8cle, analogie, m\u00e9taphore et corpor\u00e9it\u00e9 ont servi d\u2019outils pour penser le v\u00e9g\u00e9tal. \u00c0 travers les trois \u00e9ditions d\u2019A New Herball de William Turner, nous montrons comment la racine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecriture","tag-article","tag-these"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3221.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tassaneealleau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mots-cl\u00e9s :<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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