Jane Whitaker

Gardens for Gloriana (eBook, ePUB)

Wealth, Splendour and Design in the Elizabethan Garden

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No leading courtier would be without his great house, no great house was complete without its garden.

In this richly illustrated work, Jane Whitaker explores these gems of Elizabethan England, focusing on the gardens of the Queen and her leading courtiers. Drawing on the cultural and horticultural sources of the day, as well as evidence surviving on the ground, she recreates these lost gardens, revealing both the rich and Renaissance culture that underlay them and the sumptuous world of the Elizabethan aristocracy. The result is an evocation of one of the most opulent reigns in English history and an entertaining and informative study of one of the most interesting periods of garden history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786726049
• Artikelnr.: 57517884

Autorenporträt

Jane Whitaker is a writer, lecturer and consultant on garden history. She holds a PhD in garden history from the University of Bristol, UK, and is co-author (with Timothy Mowl) of The Historic Gardens of Hampshire (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Knot Gardens, Mazes and Arbours
3 Fountains and Water Gardens
4 Dining al fresco and Banqueting
5 Groves, Wildernesses, Mounts and Grottoes
6 Botany, Medicine, and Plant Introductions
7 Masques and Royal Entertainments
8 Afterword