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Cultivated Power - Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV (Hardcover, REV and Illustr)
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Cultivated Power - Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV (Hardcover, REV and Illustr)
Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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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, dukes and kings. Elizabeth Hyde
reveals how flowers became uniquely capable of revealing the
curiosity, reason, and taste of those elite men who engaged in
their cultivation. The cultural and increasingly political value of
such qualities was not lost on royal panegyrists, who seized on the
new meanings of flowers in celebrating the glory of Louis XIV.
Using previously unexplored archival sources, Hyde recovers the
extent of floral plantations in the gardens of Versailles and the
sophisticated system of nurseries created to fulfill the demands of
the king's gardeners. She further examines how the successful
cultivation of those flowers made it possible for Louis XIV to
demonstrate that his reign was a golden era surpassing even that of
antiquity. Cultivated Power expands our knowledge of flowers in
European history beyond the Dutch tulip mania and restores our
understanding of the importance of flowers in the French classical
garden. The book also develops a fuller perspective on the roles of
gender, rank, and material goods in the age of the baroque. Using
flowers to analyze the movement of culture in early modern society,
Cultivated Power ultimately highlights the influence of curious
florists on the taste of the king and the extension of the cultural
into the realm of the political.
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