Byzantine Garden Culture
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Author | : Antony Robert Littlewood |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780884022800 |
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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.
Author | : Helena Bodin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : 9789155486273 |
Download Byzantine Gardens and Beyond Book 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.
Author | : Michael Leslie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350995878 |
Download A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age Book 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.
Author | : Thomas Arentzen |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2021-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030759024 |
Download Byzantine Tree Life Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves. Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine.
Author | : Veronica Della Dora |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : 9781316496589 |
Download Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh conceptual framework for approaching Byzantine perceptions of space and the environment. It takes readers on an imaginary flight over the Earth and its varied topographies of gardens and wilderness, mountains and caves, rivers and seas, and invites them to shift from the linear time of history to the cyclical time and spaces of the sacred - the time and spaces of eternal returns and revelations"--
Author | : Brooke Shilling |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1107105994 |
Download Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.
Author | : Michael Leslie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350995479 |
Download A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age Book 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.
Author | : Foteini Spingou |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1683 |
Release | : 2022-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108643906 |
Download Sources for Byzantine Art History: Volume 3, The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (1081–c.1350) Book 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.
Author | : Danijel Dzino |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004344918 |
Download Byzantium, Its Neighbours and Its Cultures Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Byzantium was one of the longest-lasting empires in history. Throughout the millennium of its existence, the empire showed its capability to change and develop under very different historical circumstances. This remarkable resilience would have been impossible to achieve without the formation of a lasting imperial culture and a strong imperial ideological infrastructure. Imperial culture and ideology required, among other things, to sort out who was ʻinsiderʼ and who was ʻoutsiderʼ and develop ways to define and describe ones neighbours and interact with them. There is an indefinite number of possibilities for the exploration of relationships between Byzantium and its neighbours. The essays in this collection focus on several interconnected clusters of topics and shared research interests, such as the place of neighbours in the context of the empire and imperial ideology, the transfer of knowledge with neighbours, the Byzantine perception of their neighbours and the political relationship and/or the conflict with neighbours.
Author | : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2017-12-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108327036 |
Download Gardens of the Roman Empire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.