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Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts / ed. by Susannah Lyon-Whaley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Modern Court Studies ; 2Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048557356
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 635.953094209031 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Table of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Flowers and the Courts -- Flowering Spaces -- 1. The ‘Greater Delight’ : Gardens, Plants, and Flowers and the Tudor and Early Stuart Court -- 2. Canopied with Flowers : Adorning Court Spaces with Floral Tapestries and Hangings -- 3. ‘I Have Them in My Garden Growing’ : Henry Dingley’s Life With Flowers in Sixteenth-Century Worcestershire -- Flowers and the Body -- 4. Flowers and Dress: Decorative, Dynastic, and Symbolic -- 5. Blooming Fertility : Henrietta Maria and the Power of Plants as Iconography and Physic -- 6. A Taste for Flowers: Regenerating the Restoration Table -- Performing Flowers -- 7. ‘Fairy Bowers’ and ‘Precious Flowers’ in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Elizabethan Court Culture -- 8. Flowers and Gift Culture at the Elizabethan Court -- 9. Painted Flowers in Later Seventeenth- Century English Portraits -- Global Flowers -- 10. English Knots and French Parterres : English Floriculture in Continental Context -- 11. The Orange and the Rose : Horticultural and Decorative Flowers at the English and Dutch Courts of William III and Mary II -- 12. Floral Culture in a New Imperial Era : Indian Textiles in English Courts and Commons c. 1560–1700 -- Index
Summary: At court, flowers coloured, scented, adorned, sustained, nourished, and enthralled. These interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial, and represented objects across the Tudor and Stuart courts in gardens, literature, painting, interior furnishing, garments, and as jewels, medicine, and food. Situating this burgeoning floral culture within a European floral revolution of science, natural history, global trade, and colonial expansion, they reveal the court’s distinctive floral identity and history. If the rose operated as a particularly English lingua franca of royal power across two dynasties, this volume sheds light on an array of wild and garden flowers to offer an immersive picture of how the Tudor and Stuart courts lived and functioned, styled and displayed themselves through flowers. It contributes to a revival of interest in the early modern green world and provides a focused view of a court and court culture that used and revelled in blooms.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Table of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Flowers and the Courts -- Flowering Spaces -- 1. The ‘Greater Delight’ : Gardens, Plants, and Flowers and the Tudor and Early Stuart Court -- 2. Canopied with Flowers : Adorning Court Spaces with Floral Tapestries and Hangings -- 3. ‘I Have Them in My Garden Growing’ : Henry Dingley’s Life With Flowers in Sixteenth-Century Worcestershire -- Flowers and the Body -- 4. Flowers and Dress: Decorative, Dynastic, and Symbolic -- 5. Blooming Fertility : Henrietta Maria and the Power of Plants as Iconography and Physic -- 6. A Taste for Flowers: Regenerating the Restoration Table -- Performing Flowers -- 7. ‘Fairy Bowers’ and ‘Precious Flowers’ in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Elizabethan Court Culture -- 8. Flowers and Gift Culture at the Elizabethan Court -- 9. Painted Flowers in Later Seventeenth- Century English Portraits -- Global Flowers -- 10. English Knots and French Parterres : English Floriculture in Continental Context -- 11. The Orange and the Rose : Horticultural and Decorative Flowers at the English and Dutch Courts of William III and Mary II -- 12. Floral Culture in a New Imperial Era : Indian Textiles in English Courts and Commons c. 1560–1700 -- Index

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At court, flowers coloured, scented, adorned, sustained, nourished, and enthralled. These interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial, and represented objects across the Tudor and Stuart courts in gardens, literature, painting, interior furnishing, garments, and as jewels, medicine, and food. Situating this burgeoning floral culture within a European floral revolution of science, natural history, global trade, and colonial expansion, they reveal the court’s distinctive floral identity and history. If the rose operated as a particularly English lingua franca of royal power across two dynasties, this volume sheds light on an array of wild and garden flowers to offer an immersive picture of how the Tudor and Stuart courts lived and functioned, styled and displayed themselves through flowers. It contributes to a revival of interest in the early modern green world and provides a focused view of a court and court culture that used and revelled in blooms.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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