A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-00990-5 (ISBN)

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The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature.

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.

Michael Leslie is Professor of English at Rhodes College. He has written on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, interart relations, and designed landscapes of the medieval and Renaissance periods; he has most recently published editions of plays by the seventeenth century dramatist Richard Brome.

Introduction
1. Design, John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2. Types of Gardens, James G. Schryver, University of Minnesota, USA
3. Plantings, Rebecca Krug, University of Minnesota, USA
4. Use and Reception, Laura L. Howes, University of Tennessee, USA
5. Meaning, Elizabeth Augspach, NYU, USA
6. Verbal Representations, Johanna Bauman, Pratt Institute (New York) USA
7. Visual Representations, Michael Leslie, Rhodes College, USA
8. Gardens and the Larger Landscape, Robert Liddiard, University of East Anglia, UK and Tom Williamson, University of East Anglia, UK

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	14 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-00990-3 / 1350009903
ISBN-13	978-1-350-00990-5 / 9781350009905
Zustand	Neuware