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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers Copyright 2018
180 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined? How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world from the 16th century onwards? In a series of fresh approaches to these questions, the contributors offer chapters that identify and discuss newly-discovered pre-modern garden spaces in archaeology and archival sources, recognize a gendered language of... Read more

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]

Biography

Patricia Skinner holds a Personal Chair in History at Swansea University.

Theresa Tyers is Research Fellow at Swansea University.

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