Liz Herbert McAvoy

The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device.

Produktdetails

• Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 407
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9781843845980
• ISBN-10: 1843845989
• Artikelnr.: 60477781

Autorenporträt

Liz Herbert McAvoy

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gardens, Landscape and the Human Imaginary Out of Eden: The
Framing of Eve Une communion inimitable: Material Garden Hermeneutics in
the Work of the Women of Mechelen, Herrad of Hohenbourg and Hildegard of
Bingen Gertrude of Helfta and Mechthild of Hackeborn: An Arboreal Imaginary
of Flourishing Relocating Mechthild's Garden Hermeneutics: The Middle
English Poem Pearl 'Straightened on Every Side': Susanna's Garden Dilemma
Afterword: The Garden Hermeneutic in the Age of COVID-19 Bibliography Index