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| #1759981 in Books | University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division | 2003-12-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.87 x.41 x8.48l,1.01 | File type: PDF | 145 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Super book!|By Linda Hannah|It has explainations of why the gardens were created both in period and recreations. It lists plants used in the various types of gardens. It has wonderful drawings of gardens that no longer exist to show how they might have been. These are taken from archaeological finds. Great book with illuminations from the period! Super book for planning your o|From Library Journal|How does one write about gardens that no longer exist? Landsberg, a garden historian and lecturer who has designed several 13th to 16th century-style gardens, re-creates medieval gardens by analyzing contemporary manuscripts and art, the res
As well as food and medicine, the medieval garden provided pleasure, repose and refreshment to the senses. From detailed manuscript descriptions and illustrations, Sylvia Landsberg builds up a picture of the various styles of garden from the small enclosed herber with plant borders, turf benches, and rose-covered trellises, to the vast cultivated parks of royalty and nobility. Amongst the species she finds in a fifteenth-century plant inventory are the familiar violet...
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