A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age

Informationen zum Autor 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. The definitive overview on gardens through history, A Cultural History of Gardens covers 2,500 years of gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

Product details

• Authors: Michael Leslie, Michael (Rhodes College Leslie
• Assisted by: Michael Leslie (Editor), Leslie Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781350009905
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00990-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 243 mm x 14 mm
• Series: The Cultural Histories Series; Cultural Histories; The Cultural Histories Series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, GARDENING / Essays & Narratives, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Landscape architecture and design