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Byzantine Garden Culture
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Byzantine Garden Culture Hardback - 2002

by Antony Littlewood (Editor); Henry Maguire (Editor); Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Editor)

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Presents the revised versions of papers delivered at a colloquium of the same name held at Dumbarton Oaks in November 1996. The volume's 11 chapters cover such topics as scholarship on Byzantine gardens; Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of gardens; and herbs in the field and garden in Byzantine medicinal

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  • Title Byzantine Garden Culture
  • Author Antony Littlewood (Editor); Henry Maguire (Editor); Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 260
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington, D. C.
  • Publication date January 1, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780884022800 / 0884022803
  • Weight 2.07 lbs (0.94 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.2 x 7.2 x 0.9 in (25.91 x 18.29 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Architecture
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00060020
  • Dewey Decimal Code 712.094

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Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2002. Hardcover. VG. Monochromatic illustrated dustjacket with abstract inside cover flap, blue boards with gilt text on spine. xvii, (1) 2-260 pp. Features b+w illustrations. 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. Only in the last decade has much serious attention been paid to the Byzantine garden, so indirect is the mass of information, both in literature and the visual arts, that is available for scholars. Byzantine Garden Culture, which comprises the revised versions of papers delivered at a colloquium of the same title held at Dumbarton… Read more
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