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Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain

Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers
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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 the garden in fictional descriptions ("fictional" here being taken to mean any written text, regardless of its purpose), and offer new analysis of the uses to which gardens - real and imagined - might be put. Chapters investigate the definitions, forms and functions of physical gardens; explore how the material space of the garden was gendered as a secluded space for women, and as a place of recreation; examine the centrality of garden imagery in medieval Christian culture; and trace the development of garden motifs in the literary and artistic imagination to convey the sense of enclosure, transformation and release. The book uniquely underlines the current environmental "turn" in the humanities, and increasingly recognizes the value of exploring human interaction with the landscapes of the past as a route to health and well-being in the present.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers EAN: 9780367515447 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 254 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-03-31 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early 18th century c 1700 to c 1750, European history, Social and cultural history, Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

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      Patricia Skinner holds a Personal Chair in History at Swansea University.Theresa Tyers is Research Fellow at Swansea University.
      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 the garden in fictional descriptions ("fictional" here being taken to mean any written text, regardless of its purpose), and offer new analysis of the uses to which gardens - real and imagined - might be put. Chapters investigate the definitions, forms and functions of physical gardens; explore how the material space of the garden was gendered as a secluded space for women, and as a place of recreation; examine the centrality of garden imagery in medieval Christian culture; and trace the development of garden motifs in the literary and artistic imagination to convey the sense of enclosure, transformation and release. The book uniquely underlines the current environmental "turn" in the humanities, and increasingly recognizes the value of exploring human interaction with the landscapes of the past as a route to health and well-being in the present.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers EAN: 9780367515447 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 254 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-03-31 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early 18th century c 1700 to c 1750, European history, Social and cultural history, Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

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      Patricia Skinner holds a Personal Chair in History at Swansea University.Theresa Tyers is Research Fellow at Swansea University.

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