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SUMMARY:Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture 
 - Liz White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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DESCRIPTION:The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries bore witness to a deli
 cate symbiosis between books and plants. New printing technology meant tha
 t information could be disseminated to a generation for whom botany was em
 erging as a discipline of its own\, not merely as a subcategory of medicin
 e. Herbals by the likes of Brunfels\, Fuchs\, Dodoens\, Mattioli and Gerar
 d were popular compendia for all manner of domestic uses\, and their woodc
 ut images\, powerful surrogates for the plants which were difficult to tra
 nsport from country to country. During this period of experimentation and 
 discovery\, gardening became an 'art' which could bring one closer to God\
 , the very first gardener. Botanical imagery and horticultural metaphor su
 ffused all areas of public and domestic life\, including literature\, stag
 ecraft\, needlework\, religion and politics. Gardens both as ideas and as 
 physical spaces formed vital centres of socio-economic life in Renaissance
  England\, functioning as sites of storytelling and scandal\, politics and
  poetry\, profits and pleasures.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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