Gardens for Gloriana
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Gardens for Gloriana

Wealth, Splendour and Design in the Elizabethan Garden

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Gardens for Gloriana

Wealth, Splendour and Design in the Elizabethan Garden

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Knot gardens, mazes and arbours
  12. 3 Fountains and water gardens
  13. 4 Dining Al Fresco and banqueting
  14. 5 Groves, wildernesses, mounts and grottoes
  15. 6 Botany, medicine, and plant introductions
  16. 7 Masques and royal entertainments
  17. 8 Afterword
  18. Notes
  19. Dramatis personae
  20. Appendix: Plants grown in gardens in England in the early Elizabethan period
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Plate Section
  24. Copyright