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    Gardens and gardening in early modern England and Wales, 1560-1660 / Jill Francis.

    • Title:Gardens and gardening in early modern England and Wales, 1560-1660 / Jill Francis.
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    • Author/Creator:Francis, Jill, author.
    • Published/Created:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Gardening--England--History--16th century.
      Gardening--England--History--17th century.
    • Description:xi, 400 pages ; 27 cm
    • Summary:The extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis presents new, never-before published material as well as fresh interpretations of previously examined sources to reveal gardening as a practical activity in which a broad spectrum of society was engaged - from the laborers who dug, manured, and weeded, to the gentleman owners who sought to create gardens that both exemplified their personal tastes and displayed their wealth and status. Enhanced by beautiful and compelling illustrations, this book contributes to a broader understanding of early modern society and its culture by situating the activity of gardening within the wider social and cultural concerns of the age, reflecting the anxieties, hopes, and aspirations of people at the time.
    • Notes:"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art".
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-375) and index.
    • ISBN:030023208X hardcover
      9780300232080 hardcover
    • Contents:The 'Arte of gardening' : the books
      'Profits and pleasures' : the social context
      Setting the scene : Elizabethan gardens
      Continuities : early seventeenth-century gardens
      The gardeners
      New aspirations : 'A garden of pleasant flowers'
      The knotty problem of knots
      Artificial ornament in the garden
      War and peace : gardening in the mid-seventeenth century
      The plants
      Conclusions : 'A ffitt place for any gentleman'
      Appendices. 1. Bibliography of gardening literature published in English, c. 1558-1660
      2. Transcript of Sir Thomas Hanmer's essay on gardening.
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