The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain : Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750 Paperback / softback
Edited by Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers
Part of the Routledge Studies in Cultural History series
Paperback / softback
Description
What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined?
How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world from the 16th century onwards?
In a series of fresh approaches to these questions, the contributors offer chapters that identify and discuss newly-discovered pre-modern garden spaces in archaeology and archival sources, recognize a gendered language of the garden in fictional descriptions ("fictional" here being taken to mean any written text, regardless of its purpose), and offer new analysis of the uses to which gardens - real and imagined - might be put.
Chapters investigate the definitions, forms and functions of physical gardens; explore how the material space of the garden was gendered as a secluded space for women, and as a place of recreation; examine the centrality of garden imagery in medieval Christian culture; and trace the development of garden motifs in the literary and artistic imagination to convey the sense of enclosure, transformation and release.
The book uniquely underlines the current environmental "turn" in the humanities, and increasingly recognizes the value of exploring human interaction with the landscapes of the past as a route to health and well-being in the present.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:172 pages, 7 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2021
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- ISBN:9780367515447
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:172 pages, 7 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367515447
