The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary

Liz Herbert McAvoy

doi:10.1017/9781800103078

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Liz Herbert McAvoy

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2022
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781800103078
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800103078

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xiv

List of Abbreviations
pp xv-xvi

Introduction: Gardens, Landscape and the Human Imaginary
pp 1-24

1 - Out of Eden: The Framing of Eve
pp 25-76

2 - Une communion inimitable: Material Garden Hermeneutics in the Work of the Women of Mechelen, Herrad of Hohenbourg and Hildegard of Bingen
pp 77-140

3 - Gertrude the Great and Mechthild of Hackeborn: An Arboreal Imaginary of Flourishing
pp 141-194

4 - Relocating Mechthild’s Garden Hermeneutics: The Middle English Poem Pearl
pp 195-260

5 - ‘Straitened on Every Side’: Susanna’s Garden Dilemma
pp 261-332

Afterword: The Garden Hermeneutic in the Age of COVID-19
pp 333-336

Bibliography
pp 337-360

Index
pp 361-385

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