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This book explores theories of the garden, historical sites and literary representations, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. It reflects on the impossibility of reconstructing premodern gardens "as they really were," and suggests that this is less important than learning how people in the past engaged with their environment.
List of contents
Part I: Theorizing the Garden 1. Introduction: The Garden at the Intersection of Pleasure, Contemplation and Cure
Patricia Skinner and Theresa Tyers 2. Gendered Spaces of Flourishing and the Medieval
Hortus Conclusus Liz Herbert McAvoy Part II: The Historical Garden 3. Rills and Romance: Gardens at the Castles of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth and Edward I in Wales
Spencer Gavin Smith 4. A
Delite for the Senses: Three Healing Plants in Medieval Gardens, the Lily, the Rose and the Woodland Strawberry
Theresa Tyers 5. In Dock, Out Nettle: Negotiating Health Risks in the Early Modern Garden
Emily Cock Part III: The Imagined Garden 6. "To play bi an orchardside": Orchards as Enclosures of Queer Space in
Lanval and
Sir Orfeo Amy Morgan 7. Dressing the Pleasure Garden: Creation, Recreation and Varieties of Pleasure in the Two Texts of the
Norwich Grocers' Play Daisy Black 8. Political Gardens in Early Modern English Drama
Eoin Price Part IV: Gardens and Transformation 9.
Horti Recidivi:
The Restoration and Re-creation of Medieval Gardens in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Manuel Schwembacher 10. Report on a Pilot Study of the Garden as a Place of Health and Well-being
Sara Jones
About the author
Patricia Skinner holds a Personal Chair in History at Swansea University.
Theresa Tyers is Research Fellow at Swansea University.
Summary
This book explores theories of the garden, historical sites and literary representations, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. It reflects on the impossibility of reconstructing premodern gardens "as they really were," and suggests that this is less important than learning how people in the past engaged with their environment.
