Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Table of Illustrations 7
4. Acknowledgements 17
5. Introduction: Flowers and the Courts 19
6. Flowering Spaces
7. 1. The ‘Greater Delight’ : Gardens, Plants, and Flowers and the Tudor and Early Stuart Court 47
8. 2. Canopied with Flowers : Adorning Court Spaces with Floral Tapestries and Hangings 71
9. 3. ‘I Have Them in My Garden Growing’ : Henry Dingley’s Life With Flowers in Sixteenth-Century Worcestershire 95
10. Flowers and the Body
11. 4. Flowers and Dress: Decorative, Dynastic, and Symbolic 123
12. 5. Blooming Fertility : Henrietta Maria and the Power of Plants as Iconography and Physic 153
13. 6. A Taste for Flowers: Regenerating the Restoration Table 177
14. Performing Flowers
15. 7. ‘Fairy Bowers’ and ‘Precious Flowers’ in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Elizabethan Court Culture 205
16. 8. Flowers and Gift Culture at the Elizabethan Court 227
17. 9. Painted Flowers in Later Seventeenth- Century English Portraits 249
18. Global Flowers
19. 10. English Knots and French Parterres : English Floriculture in Continental Context 277
20. 11. The Orange and the Rose : Horticultural and Decorative Flowers at the English and Dutch Courts of William III and Mary II 305
21. 12. Floral Culture in a New Imperial Era : Indian Textiles in English Courts and Commons c. 1560–1700 333
22. Index 357