Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens

David Jacques

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English

Oxbow Books
15 April 2024

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

Monarchs, no less than their subjects, want to impress their guests. This book is about gardens as one aspect of creating favourable impressions soft power - in particular through the royal gardens of England in Tudor and Stuart times. It addresses the backdrop of palaces, parks and gardens that were unspoken statements of authority and cultural achievement that gave status and credibility to the country's representatives. Garden history from this perspective has been neglected hitherto; neither have the Royal Gardens been assessed as a collection in which monarchs favoured chosen sites for indulging their stylistic passions. Research on their forms and designs have in the past been accumulated piecemeal, without any sense of overview. This book contains a new analysis enabled by gathering information from numerous archaeological investigations, historic texts and the available visual material, together with extensive original research in the National Archives and elsewhere. Reconstruction drawings flesh out the narrative in the early years when maps, drawings and prints were so very scarce and are reproduced alongside the available material and the more abundant prints and paintings as the Stuart era draws to a close. Radical new understandings of the medieval garden in England serve as the starting point for a fresh narrative of the history of internationally significant English gardens in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will be of interest to architectural, garden design, social and political historians of the period and to a wide readership of those fascinated by how statecraft, foreign influences, and native innovation interwove for two centuries in our Royal Gardens and Parks.

AUTHOR: David Jacques is a garden historian. He has published several garden history books, including 'Gardens of Court and Country: English Country 1630-1730' in 2017. He has conducted practical conservation work for the Garden History Society, worked as Inspector at English Heritage and then as a consultant at both English Heritage and the Historic Royal Palaces Trust. He was awarded an OBE in 2022 'for services to garden history and conservation'.

55 colour, 110 b/w illustrations

By: David Jacques
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 185mm,
ISBN: 9781914427350
ISBN 10: 1914427351
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures List of colour plates Acknowledgements Foreword: Royal gardens in national symbolism Prelude: Medieval gardens Part 1: The Tudors 1. Henry VII (1485–1509) 2. Henry VIII (1509–1547) 3. Edward VI (1547–1554) 4. Mary I (1554–1558) 5. Elizabeth I (1558–1603) Part 2: The Stuarts 6. James I & VI (1603–1625) 7. Charles I (1625–1649) 8. Interregnum 9. Charles II (1660–1685) 10. James II & VII (1685–1688) 11. William III and Mary II (1689–1702) 12. Anne (1702–1714) Postscript: To the present Bibliography Index

David Jacques is a garden historian. He has published several garden history books, including 'Gardens of Court and Country: English Country 1630-1730' in 2017. He has conducted practical conservation work for the Garden History Society, worked as Inspector at English Heritage and then as a consultant at both English Heritage and the Historic Royal Palaces Trust. He was awarded an OBE in 2022 'for services to garden history and conservation'.

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Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens

David Jacques

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