TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francis,Jill
TI  - Gardens and gardening in early modern England and Wales, 1560-1660
SN  - 030023208X
AV  - SB451.36.G7 F73 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
KW  - Gardening
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-375) and index; 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
N2  - "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."--Back cover
ER  -