The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary

During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device.

List of contents

Introduction: Gardens, Landscape and the Human Imaginary
Out of Eden: The Framing of Eve
Une communion inimitable: Material Garden Hermeneutics in the Work of the Women of Mechelen, Herrad of Hohenbourg and Hildegard of Bingen
Gertrude of Helfta and Mechthild of Hackeborn: An Arboreal Imaginary of Flourishing
Relocating Mechthild's Garden Hermeneutics: The Middle English Poem Pearl
'Straightened on Every Side': Susanna's Garden Dilemma
Afterword: The Garden Hermeneutic in the Age of COVID-19
Bibliography
Index

About the author

LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

Summary

During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device.

Product details

• Authors: Liz Herbert Mcavoy
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781843845980
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-598-0
• No. of pages: 407
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 161 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 732 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w illus.
• Series: Nature and Environment in the; Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works