Author: Tania Bayard
Publisher:
ISBN: 0870997750
Category : Cloisters Gardens (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers
Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers
Author: Tania Bayard
Publisher: David R Godine Pub
ISBN: 9780879235932
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Discusses the herb gardens and gardening techniques of the Middle Ages and describes the gardens at the Cloisters in New York City
Publisher: David R Godine Pub
ISBN: 9780879235932
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Discusses the herb gardens and gardening techniques of the Middle Ages and describes the gardens at the Cloisters in New York City
An Aromatic Garden Wherein May be Found Herbs of a Fragrant Savour as Also Sundry Flowers of Sweet Or Bitter Scent
Author: Concord Antiquarian Society. Garden Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
An Aromatic Garden
Author: Margaret Carter Metcalf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Lists plants found in garden of Concord Antiquarian Society and includes quotations from various writers concerning these plants.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Lists plants found in garden of Concord Antiquarian Society and includes quotations from various writers concerning these plants.
A Guide to Medieval Gardens
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: White Owl
ISBN: 1526794578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
“A fascinating account of formal gardens during the middle ages,” including plants and their uses, features, tools, cultivation techniques, and more (Books Monthly). Medieval gardens usually rate very few pages in the garden history books. The general perception is still of small gardens in the corner of a castle. Recent research has shown that the gardens were larger than we previously believed. This book contains information and pictures that have not been generally available before, including the theory and practice of medieval horticulture. Many features of later gardens were already a part of medieval gardens. The number of plants was limited, but was still no less than many modern gardeners use in their own gardens today. Yet medieval gardens were imbued with meaning. Whether secular or religious, the additional dimension of symbolism, gave a greater depth to medieval gardens, which is lacking in most modern ones. This book will be of interest to those who know little about medieval gardens and to those with more knowledge. It contains some of the vast amount of research that the author carried out to create the medieval gardens at the Prebendal Manor, Nassington, Northamptonshire. The author has tried to use previously unused sources and included his own practical experience of medieval gardening methods that he carried out to maintain the gardens. “Beautifully illustrated . . . a fascinating read for the armchair gardener as well as the more practical variety . . . The author draws on a wide range of sources: herbals, animal management, medieval manuals, illuminated manuscripts, account books, poems, paintings, and tapestries.” —The Ricardian Bulletin
Publisher: White Owl
ISBN: 1526794578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
“A fascinating account of formal gardens during the middle ages,” including plants and their uses, features, tools, cultivation techniques, and more (Books Monthly). Medieval gardens usually rate very few pages in the garden history books. The general perception is still of small gardens in the corner of a castle. Recent research has shown that the gardens were larger than we previously believed. This book contains information and pictures that have not been generally available before, including the theory and practice of medieval horticulture. Many features of later gardens were already a part of medieval gardens. The number of plants was limited, but was still no less than many modern gardeners use in their own gardens today. Yet medieval gardens were imbued with meaning. Whether secular or religious, the additional dimension of symbolism, gave a greater depth to medieval gardens, which is lacking in most modern ones. This book will be of interest to those who know little about medieval gardens and to those with more knowledge. It contains some of the vast amount of research that the author carried out to create the medieval gardens at the Prebendal Manor, Nassington, Northamptonshire. The author has tried to use previously unused sources and included his own practical experience of medieval gardening methods that he carried out to maintain the gardens. “Beautifully illustrated . . . a fascinating read for the armchair gardener as well as the more practical variety . . . The author draws on a wide range of sources: herbals, animal management, medieval manuals, illuminated manuscripts, account books, poems, paintings, and tapestries.” —The Ricardian Bulletin
Sweet Herbs
Author: Charles Edward Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herbs
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herbs
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age
Author: Michael Leslie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350995479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350995479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.
Herb Gardening
Author: Jane Potter Gates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herb gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herb gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Lady of the Roses
Author: Sandra Worth
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101158085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
During her short time as a ward in Queen Marguerite's Lancastrian court, fifteen-year-old Isobel has had many suitors ask for her hand, but the spirited beauty is blind to all but Yorkist Sir John Neville. It is nothing short of a miracle when the Queen allows Isobel's marriage to the enemy, albeit at a hefty price. All around Isobel and John rages a lawless war. It is only their passion that can see them through the bloody siege of London by the Duke of York, the violent madness of Queen Marguerite, and the devolution of Isobel's meek uncle into the Butcher of England. For theirs is an everlasting love that fears not the scratch of thorns, from either the Red Rose or the White.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101158085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
During her short time as a ward in Queen Marguerite's Lancastrian court, fifteen-year-old Isobel has had many suitors ask for her hand, but the spirited beauty is blind to all but Yorkist Sir John Neville. It is nothing short of a miracle when the Queen allows Isobel's marriage to the enemy, albeit at a hefty price. All around Isobel and John rages a lawless war. It is only their passion that can see them through the bloody siege of London by the Duke of York, the violent madness of Queen Marguerite, and the devolution of Isobel's meek uncle into the Butcher of England. For theirs is an everlasting love that fears not the scratch of thorns, from either the Red Rose or the White.
In The Presence of Evil
Author: Tania Bayard
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1780109679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Introducing scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in 14th Century France. Paris, 1393. Recent widow Christine de Pizan became a scribe to the Queen of France to support her family, but when she is called to the palace to work, she dreads going. There, everyone fears the king’s attacks of unreason, and they believe the charlatans who claim they can cure him with vile potions. When a mysterious book of magic leaves a trail of real murdered bodies in its wake, Christine has more than black magic to worry about. One of the king’s favorites, Hugues de Précy, is found murdered and his wife, Alix de Clairy, is blamed. Can Christine prove Alix’s innocence and save her from being burned at the stake?
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1780109679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Introducing scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in 14th Century France. Paris, 1393. Recent widow Christine de Pizan became a scribe to the Queen of France to support her family, but when she is called to the palace to work, she dreads going. There, everyone fears the king’s attacks of unreason, and they believe the charlatans who claim they can cure him with vile potions. When a mysterious book of magic leaves a trail of real murdered bodies in its wake, Christine has more than black magic to worry about. One of the king’s favorites, Hugues de Précy, is found murdered and his wife, Alix de Clairy, is blamed. Can Christine prove Alix’s innocence and save her from being burned at the stake?