Description: This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from across literature and material and visual culture, Victoria Austen explores the perception of individual garden sites in response to their limits, and showcases how the Romans delighted in playing with concepts of boundedness and separation. Transculturally, the garden is understood as a marked-off and cultivated space. Distinct from their surroundings, gardens are material and symbolic spaces that constitute both universal and culturally specific ways of accommodating the natural world and expressing human attitudes and values. Although we define these spaces explicitly through the notions of separation and division, in many cases we are unable…condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings on pages.
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EAN: 9781350265189
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Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden : (Re) Framing the Hortus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Archaeology, Ancient / General, Europe / Italy, Ancient & Classical
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Author: Victoria Austen
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Series: Ancient Environments Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
