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The Medieval Garden
A Guide to Medieval Gardens: Gardens in the Age of Chivalry by Michael Brown, 2022
The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary (Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages) by Liz Herbert McAvoy, 2021
The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain: Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750 by Patricia Skinner and Theresa Tyers, 2018
Old English Medical Remedies: Mandrake, Wormwood and Raven’s Eye by Sinead Spearing, 2018
Medieval Herbal: A facsimile of a 15th century illustrated manuscript by Palatino Press, 2016
Medieval English Gardens by Teresa McLean, 2014
Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine by Anne Van Arsdall, 2010
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by C.M. Millen, 2010
Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide, 2008
Medieval Gardens by Justin Jennings, 2005
The Medieval Garden by Sylvia Landsberg, 2003
Hildegard’s Healing Plants: From Her Medieval Classic Physica by Hildegard Von Bingen and Bruce W. Hozeski, 2002
Monastic Gardens by Mick Hales, 2000
Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions by Minta Collins, 2000
Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses by Robin Whiteman and Rob Talbot, 1997
Medieval Flowers by Miranda Innes and Clay Perry, 1997
Bible Flowers by Jenny de Gex, 1996
A Medieval Herbal Garden by Jenny de Gex, 1995
A Medieval Flower Garden by Jenny de Gex, 1995
Medieval Gardens: A Book of Days by Kevin Crossley-Holland, 1990
In a Monastery Garden by Reginald Peplow and Elizabeth Peplow, 1988
Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers: Medieval Gardens and the Gardens of the Cloisters by Tania Bayard, 1985
Medieval Garden Design by Ramona Jablonski, 1982
The Renaissance Garden
Villas and Gardens of the Renaissance by Dario Fusaro and Lucia Impelluso, 2021
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Hyde, 2015
The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design by Luke Morgan, 2015
The Medieval Flower Book by Celia Fisher, 2013
Gardens of the Renaissance by Bryan C. Keene, 2013
Creating and Contemplating the Renaissance Garden: Combining Renaissance Thought and Oral Tradition to Understand the Geometric Pattern Manipulation of Natural Space by Theresa Potenza, 2012
Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England’s Paradise by Amy L. Tigner, 2012
Flowers of the Renaissance by Celia Fisher, 2011
How to Read an English Garden by Andrew Eburne, 2004
The Renaissance Garden in Britain by John Anthony, 1991
Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy by Claudia Lazzaro, 1990
The Renaissance of Italian Gardens by Lorenza De’Medici, 1990
Italian Gardens of the Renaissance by J.C. Shepherd, 1986
The Renaissance Garden in England by Roy Strong, 1984
The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance by Terry Comito, 1978
The Medieval Kitchen Garden
The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500 by C.M. Woolier, 2016
The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black, 2012
The Medieval Kitchen: A Social History with Recipes by Hannele Klemettilä, 2012
Anglo-Saxon Food and Drink by Ann Hagen, 2006
Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past by Maria Dembinska, 1999
The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy by Odile Redon, Françoise Sabban and Silvano Serventi, 1998
The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages by Terence Scully, 1995
Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society by Bridget Ann Henisch, 1986
All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Presently Stephen Mennell, 1985
The Birth and Evolution of the English Kitchen Garden: Medieval Period to 1800 A.D. by Mary Palmer Dargan, 1983
Illuminated Manuscripts & Floral Ornamentation
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church by Richard Firth Green, 2016
Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren and Kurt Barstow, 2015
Medieval Floral Designs by Phoebe Ann Erb, 1999
