A Cultural History Of Gardens In Antiquity

Author : Kathryn Gleason
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1350009865

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A Cultural History of Gardens in Antiquity by Kathryn Gleason Pdf

The history of gardens in antiquity is characterized by a rich mix of cultures interacting throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. This period - from the sixth century BCE to the sixth century CE - was foundational to the later periods of garden history. The emergence of advanced horticultural techniques, sustained regional and international trade routes, and centralized power structures promoted the development of highly sophisticated garden culture in both private and public contexts. New evidence derived from archaeology and fresh analysis of literary and visual sources revises our perspective, reminding us that these garden cultures were varied and diverse, yet connected through ritual, trade, conquest, and cultural practices in ways we are only beginning to define.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 184788265X

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A Cultural History of Gardens: In Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Leslie,John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1350048100

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age by Michael Leslie,John Dixon Hunt Pdf

Author : Annette Giesecke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350259270

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A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity by Annette Giesecke Pdf

A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity covers the period from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE. This period witnessed the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere, and culminated in the fall of the Roman Empire, the end of the Han Dynasty in China, the rise of Byzantium, and the first flowering of Mayan civilization. Human uses for and understanding of plants drove cultural evolution and were inextricably bound to all aspects of cultural practice. The growth of botanical knowledge was fundamental to the development of agriculture, technology, medicine, and science, as well as to the birth of cities, the rise of religions and mythologies, and the creation of works of literature and art. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. Annette Giesecke is Professor of Classics at the University of Delaware, USA. Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Plants set. General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.

Author : Elizabeth Hyde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184788265X

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Hyde Pdf

Author : Michael Leslie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350995871

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age by Michael Leslie Pdf

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.

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350009905

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age by John Dixon Hunt Pdf

A Cultural History of Gardens presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces. This structure means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on gardens through history.

Author : Elizabeth Hyde,Michael Leslie,John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1350048127

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Hyde,Michael Leslie,John Dixon Hunt Pdf

Author : Annette Giesecke,D. J. Mabberley,Alain Touwaide,Andrew Dalby,Jennifer Dawn Milam,Stephen Forbes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Crops
ISBN : 9781474273510

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A Cultural History of Plants by Annette Giesecke,D. J. Mabberley,Alain Touwaide,Andrew Dalby,Jennifer Dawn Milam,Stephen Forbes Pdf

"A Cultural History of Plants presents a global exploration of how plants have shaped human culture. Covering the last 12,000 years, it is the definitive history of how we have cultivated, traded, classified, and altered plants and how, in turn, plants have influenced our ideas of luxury and wealth, health and well-being, art and architecture. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: Plants as Staple Foods; Plants as Luxury Foods; Trade and Exploration; Plant Technology and Science; Plants and Medicine; Plants in Culture; Plants as Natural Ornaments; The Representation of Plants."--

Author : Maureen Carroll
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Excavations (Archaeology).
ISBN : 0892367210

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Earthly Paradises by Maureen Carroll Pdf

The cultivation of gardens played an integral role in both the public and private spheres of the ancient world. Whether grown as sources of food, symbols of wealth and prestige, or as dwellings for the gods, gardens were nurtured at every level of society. In this beautifully illustrated book, Maureen Carroll examines the most recent evidence for the existence, functions, and designs of gardens from the second millennium B.C. to the middle of the first millennium A.D. in the cultures of the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the provinces of the Roman Empire. She looks at gardens in their many forms, including house gardens, orchards and parks, sacred gardens and cemetery gardens, and dedicates a chapter to gardens in ancient poetry. She also discusses ancient horticultural practices and the role of gardeners, concluding with a chapter on the survival of ancient gardening traditions in the Islamic and Byzantine worlds, and the perception and depiction of paradise in those cultures. Evidence is drawn from archaeological excavations, which can reveal the remains of gardens that were never mentioned in written sources, as well as from textual, pictorial, and environmental sources. Illustrated with delightful images from tomb and wall paintings, sculptural reliefs and manuscripts, as well as with informative reconstructions and plans, this book provides fascinating insights into the earthly paradises of antiquity. Book jacket.

Author : Michel Conan,Wangheng Chen
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSC:32106016687094

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Gardens, City Life and Culture by Michel Conan,Wangheng Chen Pdf

Seeks to understand the roles played by gardens from Roman antiquity to approximately 1850, particularly as they relate to public life in large cities.

Author : Linda Farrar
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909686861

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Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World by Linda Farrar Pdf

From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle Ages. It shows how gardens in each period were designed and cultivated. Evidence for garden art and horticulture is gathered from surviving examples of ancient art, literature, archaeology, actual period gardens that have survived the centuries and the wealth of garden myths associated with certain plants. These sources bring ancient gardens and their gardeners back to life, and provide information on which plants were chosen as garden worthy, their setting and the design and appearance of ancient gardens. Deities associated with aspects of gardens and the garden's fertility are featured - everyone wanted a fertile garden. Different forms of public and domestic gardens are explored, and the features that you would find there; whether paths, pools, arbors and arches, seating or decorative sculpture. The ideal garden could be like the Greek groves of the Academy in Athens, a garden so fine that it was comparable with that of the mythical king Alcinoos, the paradise contemplated by the Islamic world, or a personal version of a garden of Eden that Early Christians could create for themselves or in the forecourt of their churches. In general books on garden history cover all periods up to the present, often placing all ancient gardens in one chapter at the beginning. But there is so much of interest to be found in these early millennia. Generously illustrated with 150 images, with plant lists for each period, this is essential reading for everyone interested in garden history and ancient societies.

Author : Sonja Dümpelmann,Michael Leslie,John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1350048089

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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire by Sonja Dümpelmann,Michael Leslie,John Dixon Hunt Pdf

Author : Jerry Toner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474232982

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A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity by Jerry Toner Pdf

The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the senses were experienced vividly: cities stank, statues were brightly painted and literature made full use of sensory imagery to create its effects. In a steeply hierarchical world, with vast differences between the landed wealthy, the poor and the slaves, the senses played a key role in establishing and maintaining boundaries between social groups; but the use of the senses in the ancient world was not static. New religions, such as Christianity, developed their own way of using the senses, acquiring unique forms of sensory-related symbolism in processes which were slow and often contested. The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of these structures and developments and to show how their study can yield a more nuanced understanding of the ancient world. A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity presents essays on the following topics: the social life of the senses; urban sensations; the senses in the marketplace; the senses in religion; the senses in philosophy and science; medicine and the senses; the senses in literature; art and the senses; and sensory media.

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780191004179

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Garden History: A Very Short Introduction by Gordon Campbell Pdf

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers. In this Very Short Introduction, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens from different regions and traditions. Ranging from the gardens of ancient Persia to modern day allotments, he concludes by looking to the future of the garden in the age of global warming, and the adaptive spirit of human innovation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.