Cultivated Power : : Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV / / Elizabeth Hyde.
Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, duke...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 8 color, 40 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. Disorderly Flowers
- CHAPTER 2. Refashioning the Culture of Flowers in Early Modern France
- CHAPTER 3. Cultivating the Flower
- CHAPTER 4. Cultivating the Man
- CHAPTER 5. Cultivating the King
- Epilogue
- APPENDIX A. Extract of the Inventory . . . by Sieur Cottereau of Flowering Plants and Bulbs that He Offers to Furnish for the Gardens of the Royal Households
- APPENDIX B. Plants Included in Jean Donneau de Visé's Histoire de Louis le Grand
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments