Medieval Gardens. 1986. (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, 9). many illustr. 278 p. gr8vo. Cloth.

Contents: Introduction/ Royal Gardens in Medieval England/ The Medieval Monastic Garden/ Hortus Sanitatis, Gart der Gesundheit, Gaerde der Sunthede/ Alimentary and Medicinal Uses of Plants/ The Medieval Garden and Its Role in Medicine/ Reality and Literary Romance in the Park of Hesdin/ Paradise Regained: Medieval Garden Fountains/ Piero de' Crescenzi and the Medieval Garden/ The Garden as Art/ The Garden outside the Walls: Plant Forms in Thirteenth-Century English Sculpture/ The Garden of the Roman de la Rose: Vision of Landscape or Landscape of Vision?/ Gardens as Symbol and Setting in Late Medieval Poetry/ The "Closed Garden" and the "Sealed Fountain": Song of Songs 4:12 in the Late Medieval Iconography of Mary.