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Cultivated Power : Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV /

"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 ag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hyde, Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Disorderly Flowers
  • Floral Seduction: Death, Sex, and Flowers
  • Trading on the Power of Flowers
  • Refashioning the Culture of Flowers in Early Modern France
  • Curiosity and Flowers
  • The Sweet Society of the Curious Florists
  • Cultivating the Flower
  • The Florists' Flowers
  • Unlocking the Door to the Temple of Flora
  • Cultivating the Man
  • The Theater of the Goddess of Flowers
  • Nature into Art
  • "Jardin d'Hyver," or Flowers in Print
  • Cultivating the King
  • Royal Precedents
  • Flowers in the Gardens of Louis XIV
  • Floral Merchantilism
  • Flowers and the "Histoire du Roi"
  • Extract of the Inventory ... by Sieur Cottereau of Flowering Plants and Bulbs that He Offers to Furnish for the Gardens of the Royal Households
  • Plants Included in Jean Donneau de Vise's Histoire de Louis le Grand.