Gardens for Gloriana

Wealth, Splendour and Design in the Elizabethan Garden

Jane Whitaker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-78831-119-9 (ISBN)

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The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No leading courtier would be without his great house, no great house was complete without its garden.

In this richly illustrated work, Jane Whitaker explores these gems of Elizabethan England, focusing on the gardens of the Queen and her leading courtiers. Drawing on the cultural and horticultural sources of the day, as well as evidence surviving on the ground, she recreates these lost gardens, revealing both the rich and Renaissance culture that underlay them and the sumptuous world of the Elizabethan aristocracy. The result is an evocation of one of the most opulent reigns in English history and an entertaining and informative study of one of the most interesting periods of garden history.

Jane Whitaker is a writer, lecturer and consultant on garden history. She holds a PhD in garden history from the University of Bristol, UK, and is co-author (with Timothy Mowl) of The Historic Gardens of Hampshire (2015).

1 Introduction
2 Knot Gardens, Mazes and Arbours
3 Fountains and Water Gardens
4 Dining al fresco and Banqueting
5 Groves, Wildernesses, Mounts and Grottoes
6 Botany, Medicine, and Plant Introductions
7 Masques and Royal Entertainments
8 Afterword

Erscheinungsdatum	04.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	41 colour illus, 75 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 220 mm
Gewicht	760 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78831-119-1 / 1788311191
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-119-9 / 9781788311199
Zustand	Neuware