A Guide to Medieval Gardens
Gardens in the Age of Chivalry
$74.53
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2022
Summary
Medieval gardens usually rate very few pages in the garden history books. The general perception is still of small gardens in the corner of a castle. Recent research has shown that the gardens were larger than we previously believed. This book contains information and pictures that have not been generally available before, including the theory and practice of medieval horticulture. Many features of later gardens were already a part of medieval gardens. The number of plants was limited, but wa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526794543 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526794543 |
| Author: | Michael Brown |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | White Owl |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 764g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 255mm x 180mm |
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“This very special history contains some of the vast amount of research that Professor Brown carried out to create the medieval gardens…A simply fascinating read and a singularly important.”
“This very special history contains some of the vast amount of research that Professor Brown carried out to create the medieval gardens…A simply fascinating read and a singularly important.”– “Midwest Book Review”
About The Author
Michael Brown
Michael J Brown has an MA in Garden History and is an experienced gardener. He has been interested in history and gardening for as long as he can remember. He spent his childhood building camps, cooking (well actually, burning food) over open fires, making bows and arrows and using cricket stumps for swords - he still finds cricket very boring. Michael became a qualified gardener and worked his way up to become a Head Gardener and later a college lecturer teaching horticulture and garden history. He created the medieval gardens at the Prebendal Manor at Nassington, Northamptonshire. This book is the result of some of his research of medieval gardens and the uses of the plants at that period. He has also assisted with several other early garden projects. Pen and Sword also published his book about poisonous plants, Death in the Garden, in 2018.
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