Byzantine gardens and beyond
By: Helena Bodin & Ragnar Hedlund (eds)
Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia -- 13; Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis -- 13.
Publisher: Uppsala Universitet
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789155486273
Subjects: Byzantine Gardens; Congresses; History; Civilization
Description: "Byzantine Gardens and Beyond has its origin in a symposium that was organized by the Nordic Byzantine Network in [7-8] April 2011 at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), situated in the [Linneanum of the] Botanical Garden of Uppsala. The anthology aims to bring together different perspectives on Byzantine garden culture. Byzantium offers a vantage point for reflecting on the wider meaning and significance of the garden. This topic is discussed by a group of scholars belonging to various disciplines and methodological approaches, ranging from Byzantine Studies, Archaeology, Landscape Architecture and Literary Studies, to Slavic, Arabic and Swedish languages. The collection of articles takes the reader through time and space, from the Garden of Eden to Rome and Constantinople, and further to Syria, Russia, and Scandinavia. One discovers that the cultivation of gardens has provided unceasing inspiration to artists, writers and thinkers throughout the ages"--Back cover.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nature Controlled by Artistry, The Poetics of the Literary Garden in Byzantium  -- Ingela Nilsson; title: Gardens of the Byzantine World  -- Antony Littlewood; title: A Homeric Garden in Tenth-Century Constantinople : John Geometres' Rhetorical Ekphraseis of his Estate  -- Kristoffel Demoen; title: "Paradise in a Cave" : The Garden of the Theotokos in Byzantine Hymnography  -- Helena Bodin; title: The Vanished Gardens of Byzantium : Gardening, Visual Culture, and Devotion in the Byzantine Orthodox Tradition  -- Jorgen Bakke; title: Guarding and Gardening : Syria from Byzantine to Islamic Rule  -- Olof Heilo; title: The Terrestrial Paradise : The Garden as a Topos in Russian Medieval Culture  -- Per-Arne Bodin; title: Beyond Byzantium : Swedish Medieval Herbalism and Plant Names  -- Inger Larsson; title: White and Red Lilies from Constantinople : "Lilium album Byzantinum" and "Lilium rubrum Byzantinum" -- Kjell Lundquist.