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Sarah Cawthorne
Experimenting with “Garden Discourse”:
Cultivating Knowledge in Thomas Browne’s Garden of Cyrus
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Books were materially and metaphorically botanical in the early modern period. This article uses The Garden of Cyrus (1658), Thomas Browne’s wide-ranging philosophical tract, to illustrate how the often self-conscious links between books and gardens could operate in epistemologically significant ways. It argues that Browne’s repeated positioning of his book as a garden creates a productive model for aesthetic, theological and scientific experimentation and innovation. The framework of the garden constructs a space in which the foremost, apparently contradictory, models of knowledge associated with the seventeenth-century garden—the analogical approach of the doctrine of signatures and the empirical approach associated with the “new science”—can coexist. Extrapolating from the book of nature to suggest the inherently discursive and rhetorical forms of Browne’s knowledge as well as its limitations, the article concludes by proposing a new spatial model for this kind of coterminous literary and experimental approach: the elaboratory.
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Alexandru Mexi
Early Modern Garden Design Concepts and Twentieth Century Royal Gardens in Romania:
Peleş Castle and the Mannerist Landscape
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Built in between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century in a mountainous region in Romania, the Peleş Castle and its gardens were conceived according to the mid sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries landscape design principles. Thus, the surrounding landscape, the park and gardens at the royal residence in Sinaia make up an overall image of a Mannerist landscape in which the Villa or, in this case, the castle, is integrated in a complex allegorical, alchemical and political programme. To explore this chronologically incongruent design and to explore gardening principles perhaps invisible in plain sight for modern eyes, the following study aims to emphasize the presence of early modern Western European gardens in the design of the park and gardens at Peleş. This analysis will also reveal the various ways in which, by manipulating nature according to Late Renaissance and Mannerism principles, nature was staged to achieve political goals.
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Gabriel R. Ricci
Science, Art and the Classical World in the Botanizing Travels of William Bartram
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William Bartram would accompany his botanizing father, John, into the wilderness and he would famously memorialize his own explorations with an account that mixed romantic conventions with natural history and Quaker theology. William’s interior life corresponds to the spirit of Virgil’s Eclogues with its promise of the restoration of a Golden Age, replete with bucolic scenes of shepherds tending their flocks and singing nature’s praises. This paper addresses some of the political interpretations that Bartram’s work has received and argues that William was focused on a distant past which he was introduced to through the classical curriculum at the newly founded Academy of Philadelphia (1752). William’s curriculum guaranteed an introduction to the conventions of the sublime and the picturesque, since Addison’s Spectator was also required reading and he was well-versed in Linnaean nomenclature, but wherever William botanized his observations of the natural world were framed by classical literature. His tour of ancient Indian ruins where he imagined an Areopagus and a space free of strife and bloodshed is a dramatic example of William’s habit of importing a place defined by classical literature into his natural history.
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Fred C. Robinson
Anglo-Saxon Studies:
Present State and Future Prospects
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Sandro Sticca
Praefatio Editoris
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Daniel P. Poteet II
Condition, Contrast, and Division in the Ludus Coventriae "Woman Taken in Adultery"
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Joseph Szövérffy
Marginal Notes on a New Edition of the Hymnarius Paraclitensis
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Clifford Davidson
After the Fall:
Design in the Old Testament Plays in the York Cycle
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John F. Stephens
Andrew the Chaplain and the Social Significance of Medieval Romanticism
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Susan L. Clark, Julian N. Wasserman
Decameron 2.4:
The Journey of the Hero
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Josiah C. Russell
Death Along the Deer Trails
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Joseph B. Trahern, Jr.
An Old English Verse Paraphrase of Matthew 25:41
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Helen Rodnite Lemay
Guillaume De Conches' Division of Philosophy in the Accessus Ad Macrobium
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James W. Marchand
The "Credo" of Þrandir i Gotu
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Douglas Radcliff-Umstead
The Catharists and the Failure of Community
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Larry S. Crist, Roger J. Steiner
Musica Verbis Concordet:
Medieval French Lyric Poems with their Music (a Discography)
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Mary E. Shaner
The Fall of Nature in a Group of Kentish Poppyheads
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Calvin B. Kendall
Dry Bones in a Cathedral:
The Story of the Theft of Bede's Relics and the Translation of Cuthbert Into the Cathedral of Durham in 1104
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Susan M. Babbitt
Nicole Oresme:
The Limits of Imagination
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