gardening-bks-bib - 3/29/08
Various gardening bibliographies and book reviews.
NOTE: See also the files: gardening-bib, gardening-msg, herbs-msg, herb-uses-msg, p-agriculture-bib, p-herbals-msg, Palladius-art, Pattrn-Gardns-art.
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Subject: Gardening Books
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:30:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Betty Eyer <betty_eyer at yahoo.com>
To: Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Happy Reading!
Magdalena
Restoring Period Gardens - John Harvey - Shire Garden
History - ISBN 0-7478-0200-9
Illustrated Herbal - Thames and Hudson - Blunt &
Raphael, ISBN 0-500-27786-9
The Renaissance Garden in England - Roy Strong -
Thames and Hudson - ISBN 0-500-27214-X
Medieval Flowers - Innes & Perry - Kyle Cathie Ltd -
ISBN 1-85626-259-6 (actually, this is almost a coffee
table book, but it does illustrate well the idea of
getting refrences about plants from literature and
art.
Medieval Health Handbook - Tacuinum Sanitatis - George
Braziller - ISBN 0-8076-1277-4
Culpepper's Complete Herbal and English Physician -
Meyerbooks - ISBN 0-916638-20-0
The Medieval Garden - Sylvia Landsberg - Thames and
Hudson - ISBN 0-500-01691-7
The History of Gardens - Chritopher Thacker -
University of California Press - ISBN 0-520-05629-9
An Illustrated History of Gardening - Anthony Huxley -
The Lyons Press - ISBN - 1- 55821 - 693 - 6
Shakespeare's Flowers - Jessica Kerr - Johnson Books -
ISBN 1-55566-202-1
Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden - Little, Brown & Co -
ISBN - ISBN 0-8212-2386-9
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Magdalena de Hazebrouck
Purpure, a fess fesule argent between three torches or.
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:01:49 -0500
From: Stephen Bloch <sbloch at adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] I finally got some land to garden on..
To: Jenn Strobel <jenn.strobel at gmail.com>, Cooks within the SCA
<sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> ..but i've never gardened before.
>
> I'll have on the order of up to half an acre to build a garden on and
> the ability to have a mulch pile (but that takes a while to "pay off"
> as it were). It is located in SouthWestern, PA and is mostly shaded.
> I don't want ornamental, i'm more focused towards a theme of "things I
> can eat".
>
> Given those conditions, what kinds of vegetables/plants would y'all
> recommend I put in? What advice would y'all have for the novice
> gardener? What books/websites would y'all recommend for me to peruse
> for inspiration/information?
I would start with Sylvia Landesberg's _The Medieval Garden_, Thames
& Hudson pub., ISBN 0-500-01691-7 (I don't see a copyright date; I
think it's in the 1980's). I wrote a review of it for Tournaments
Illuminated a few years ago. It discusses several different
categories of medieval gardens, of which it sounds like you'd want an
"herber", a small, enclosed garden of herbs and vegetables (albeit
with, perhaps, some "leisure" features as well). Landesberg also
discusses what fruits and vegetables would be in a medieval garden,
how it would have been laid out, crop rotation cycles, etc. She has
designed a good number of medieval gardens at various historic sites
around Great Britain, and includes a chapter discussing how she did
each one, as well as a chapter on designing your own medieval garden.
Some other sources:
Tania Bayard's _Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers: Medieval Gardens and
the Gardens of the Cloisters_, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1985, ISBN
0-87099-422-0 or 0-87923-593-4. Includes about 15 pages on "the uses
of herbs in the Middle Ages", then a chapter on each of the several
reconstructed cloister gardens at The Cloisters (the medieval annex
building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York). Not a lot
of detail on each plant, just tables of what plants are in which
garden and what "theme" they chose for each garden.
Margaret B. Freeman's _Herbs for the Medieval Household_,
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1947 (2nd ed. 1997), ISBN 0-87099-776-9.
Lists about a hundred herb and spice plants, with a woodcut and a few
paragraphs on citations and uses in the Middle Ages for each.
Michel Botineau's _Les Plantes du Jardin Medieval_, Edition Eveil
Nature 2001, ISBN 2-84000-034-2.
(Checking the Web site, I see a copyright date of 2003 and ISBN
2-7011-3785-3; this may be a new edition, or may simply reflect the
publisher being bought out by Editions Belin.) I don't think there's
an English-language edition; we picked this up at a museum shop in
France. It lists hundreds of plant species (herbs, spices, fruits,
vegetables, etc.), with (for each) a picture, French common names,
botanical name, at least one primary-source citation for its use in
medieval Europe, and a few paragraphs about how it was used in the
Middle Ages.
--
John Elys
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