Table of Contents

A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age, Edited by Michael Leslie Introduction Design, John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania, USA Types of Gardens, James G. Schryver, University of Minnesota, USA Plantings, Rebecca Krug, University of Minnesota, USA Use and Reception, Laura L. Howes, University of Tennessee, USA Meaning, Elizabeth Augspach, NYU, USA Verbal Representations, Johanna Bauman, Pratt Institute (New York) USA Visual Representations, Michael Leslie, Rhodes College, USA Gardens and the Larger Landscape, Robert Liddiard, University of East Anglia, UK and Tom Williamson, University of East Anglia, UK

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The definitive overview on gardens through history, A Cultural History of Gardens covers 2,500 years of gardens as physical, social and artistic spaces.

About the Author

Michael Leslie is Professor of English at Rhodes College. He has written on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, interart relations, and designed landscapes of the medieval and Renaissance periods; he has most recently published editions of plays by the seventeenth century dramatist Richard Brome.