Byzantine Garden Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantine Garden Culture write by Antony Robert Littlewood. This book was released on 2002. Byzantine Garden Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Individual essays discuss Byzantine conceptions of paradise, the textual evidence for monastic horticulture, animal and game parks, herbs in medicinal pharmacy, and the famous illustrated copy of Dioskorides's herbal manual in Vienna. An opening chapter explores questions and observations from the point of view of a non-Byzantine garden historian, and the closing chapter suggests possible directions for future scholarship in the field.
Byzantine Gardens and Beyond
Byzantine Gardens and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantine Gardens and Beyond write by Helena Bodin. This book was released on 2013. Byzantine Gardens and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Byzantine Gardens and Beyond has its origin in a symposium that was organized by the Nordic Byzantine Network in [7-8] April 2011 at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), situated in the [Linneanum of the] Botanical Garden of Uppsala. The anthology aims to bring together different perspectives on Byzantine garden culture. Byzantium offers a vantage point for reflecting on the wider meaning and significance of the garden. This topic is discussed by a group of scholars belonging to various disciplines and methodological approaches, ranging from Byzantine Studies, Archaeology, Landscape Architecture and Literary Studies, to Slavic, Arabic and Swedish languages. The collection of articles takes the reader through time and space, from the Garden of Eden to Rome and Constantinople, and further to Syria, Russia, and Scandinavia. One discovers that the cultivation of gardens has provided unceasing inspiration to artists, writers and thinkers throughout the ages"--Back cover.
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age write by Michael Leslie. This book was released on 2015-04-02. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.
Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350)
Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350) write by Foteini Spingou. This book was released on 2022-04-21. Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.
Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium write by Brooke Shilling. This book was released on 2016-10-13. Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.
