Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts Hardback
Edited by Susannah Lyon-Whaley
Part of the Early Modern Court Studies series
Hardback
Description
At court, flowers coloured, scented, adorned, sustained, nourished, and enthralled.
These interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial, and represented objects across the Tudor and Stuart courts in gardens, literature, painting, interior furnishing, garments, and as jewels, medicine, and food.
Situating this burgeoning floral culture within a European floral revolution of science, natural history, global trade, and colonial expansion, they reveal the court’s distinctive floral identity and history.
If the rose operated as a particularly English lingua franca of royal power across two dynasties, this volume sheds light on an array of wild and garden flowers to offer an immersive picture of how the Tudor and Stuart courts lived and functioned, styled and displayed themselves through flowers.
It contributes to a revival of interest in the early modern green world and provides a focused view of a court and court culture that used and revelled in blooms.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 76 Illustrations, color; 20 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9789463722490
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 76 Illustrations, color; 20 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9789463722490
