Main entry:

Hyde, Elizabeth.

Title & Author:

Cultivated power : flowers, culture, and politics in the reign of Louis XIV / Elizabeth Hyde.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.

Description:

xxiii, 330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-321) and index.
Disorderly Flowers -- Floral Seduction: Death, Sex, and Flowers -- Trading on the Power of Flowers -- Refashioning the Culture of Flowers in Early Modern France -- Curiosity and Flowers -- The Sweet Society of the Curious Florists -- Cultivating the Flower -- The Florists' Flowers -- Unlocking the Door to the Temple of Flora -- Cultivating the Man -- The Theater of the Goddess of Flowers -- Nature into Art -- "Jardin d'Hyver," or Flowers in Print -- Cultivating the King -- Royal Precedents -- Flowers in the Gardens of Louis XIV -- Floral Merchantilism -- Flowers and the "Histoire du Roi" -- Extract of the Inventory ... by Sieur Cottereau of Flowering Plants and Bulbs that He Offers to Furnish for the Gardens of the Royal Households -- Plants Included in Jean Donneau de Vise's Histoire de Louis le Grand.

Summary:

"Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, dukes and kings. Elizabeth Hyde reveals how flowers became uniquely capable of revealing the curiosity, reason, and taste of those elite men who engaged in their cultivation."
"Using previously unexplored archival sources, Hyde recovers the extent of floral plantations in the gardens of Versailles and the sophisticated system of nurseries created to fulfill the demands of the king's gardeners. She further examines how the successful cultivation of those flowers made it possible for Louis XIV to demonstrate that his reign was a golden era surpassing even that of antiquity."
"Cultivated Power expands our knowledge of flowers in European history beyond the Dutch tulip mania, and restores our understanding of the importance of flowers in the French classical garden. The book also develops a fuller perspective on the roles of gender, rank, and material goods in the age of the baroque. Using flowers to analyze the movement of culture in early modern society, Cultivated Power ultimately highlights the influence of curious florists on the taste of the king, and the extension of the cultural into the realm of the political."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0812238265 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780812238266 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.
Ludwig Frankreich, König, XIV.
Gardens, French History 17th century.
Gardens, French History 18th century.
Gardens France History 17th century.
Gardens France History 18th century.
Flowers Symbolic aspects.
Jardins français Histoire 17e siècle.
Jardins français Histoire 18e siècle.
Jardins France Histoire 17e siècle.
Jardins France Histoire 18e siècle.
Fleurs Aspect symbolique.
Gardens.
Gardens, French.
Pflanzensymbolik
Gartenkunst
France History Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
France.
Frankreich
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237385
Call No.: BIB 167200
Status: Available