Byzantine Garden Culture

Henry Maguire, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahnm, and Antony Littlewood, editors

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Contents

Front Matter and List of Abbreviations

Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, The Study of Byzantine Gardens: Some Questions and Observations from a Garden Historian

Antony Littlewood, The Scholarship of Byzantine Gardens

Henry Maguire, Paradise Withdrawn

Alice-Mary Talbot, Byzantine Monastic Horticulture: The Textual Evidence

Nancy P. Sevcenko, Wild Animals in the Byzantine Park

Costas N. Constantinides, Byzantine Gardens and Horticulture in the Late Byzantine Period, 1204 ­1453: The Secular Sources

Mary-Lyon Dolezal and Maria Mavroudi, Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St.Anna and the Ekphrasis of Gardens

Robert Rodgers, Kepopoiïa: Garden Making and Garden Culture in the Geoponika

John Scarborough, Herbs of the Field and Herbs of the Garden in Byzantine Medicinal Pharmacy

Leslie Brubaker, The Vienna Dioskorides and Anicia Juliana

Antony Littlewood, Possible Future Directions

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