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

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Patricia Skinner (Swansea University, UK) Theresa Tyers (Swansea University, UK)

The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain

Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750

Patricia Skinner (Swansea University, UK), Theresa Tyers (Swansea University, UK)

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Routledge
31 March 2021

British & Irish history; Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

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.

Edited by: Patricia Skinner (Swansea University UK), Theresa Tyers (Swansea University, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 58
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9780367515447
ISBN 10: 036751544X
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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