mediumaevum:During the Middle Ages the term ’pleasure gardens’ appeared. These are gardens made, not
mediumaevum:During the Middle Ages the term ’pleasure gardens’ appeared. These are gardens made, not for practical purposes, but for the joy of the beauty and smell of the flowers.A few written sources have survived. For example, in 1260 Albertus Magnus wrote ‘De Vegetabilis et Plantis’. It contains a description of plants used in pleasure gardens. He was a monk and wrote much about botany, philosophy and Theology. image 1: Garden of Five Senses in a medieval French village of Yvoire. The donjon in the background, overlooking Lake Geneva is from the XIV century. (x)image 2: Emelye in the garden. From a manuscript of Boccaccio’s Il Teseide by the Master of the Hours of the Duke of Burgundy, c. 1465. -- source link
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