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The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary (Hardcover)
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The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary (Hardcover)
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
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During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden -
especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected
hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. During the Middle
Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its
manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was
a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary
or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and
iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and
symbolic qualities. This study focuses on the more complex
metaphysical functions and meanings attached to it between 1100 and
1400 - and, in particular, those associated with the gardens of
Eden and the Song of Songs. Drawing on contemporary theories of
gender, gardens, landscape and space, it traces specifically the
resurfacing and reworking of the idea and image of the enclosed
garden within the writings of medieval holy women and other
female-coded texts. In so doing, it presents the enclosed garden as
generator of a powerfully gendered hermeneutic imprint within the
medieval religious imaginary - indeed, as an alternative "language"
used to articulate those highly complex female-coded approaches to
God that came to dominate late-medieval religiosity. The book also
responds to the "eco-turn" in our own troubled times that attempts
to return the non-human to the centre of public and private
discourse. The texts under scrutiny therefore invite responses as
both literary and "garden" spaces where form often reflects
content, and where their authors are also diligent "gardeners": the
apocryphal Lives of Adam and Eve, for example; the
horticulturally-inflected Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenburg
and the "green" philosophies of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias; the
visionary writings of Gertrude the Great and Mechthild of Hackeborn
collaborating within their Helfta nunnery; the Middle English poem,
Pearl; and multiple reworkings of the deeply problematic and
increasingly sexualized garden enclosing the biblical figure of
Susanna.
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