The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain: Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750

ISBN-13: 9780367515447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 172 str.

Patricia Skinner; Theresa Tyers

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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.

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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