A Cultural History of Gardens

Over six books, a wide variety of historian academics share knowledge of their subject areas through the topic of gardens. Design, Types of Gardens, Plantings, Use and Reception, Meaning, Verbal Representations, Visual Representations and Gardens and the Larger Landscape are the common headings in each volume. Antiquity, The Medieval Age, The Renaissance, The Enlightenment, The Age of Empire and The Modern Age make up the six volumes which can be used as a set, whilst also being useful as a series of independent volumes informing the reader about a very particular aspect of each period of history.

By undertaking a...