{"product_id":"gardens-of-renaissance-europe-and-the-islamic-empires-9780271077796","title":"Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays exploring similarities between gardens and designed landscapes in Europe and the Islamic world after the fifteenth century. Essays identify possible direct or indirect influences and examine transcontinental mutual influences in garden design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In an age when \"cultural appropriation\" is au courant, this book begins to fill a void and is timely as well. The ten essays are all scholarly and magnificently documented. . . . Highly recommended.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—I. Richman \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This volume offers a fine array of historical connections between European and Islamic gardens, critiquing those geographic constructs while exploring them in rich detail. It brings innovative lines of Islamic garden research into dialogue with larger and longer-term histories of European gardens. These essays address a major need in the field of garden and landscape history, with new findings and interpretations.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—James L. Wescoat Jr.,coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This collection of scholarly, yet readable, well-illustrated essays closely examines how Islamic and European garden traditions interacted and influenced one another.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Tom Verde \u003ci\u003eAramco World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This attractive and adventurous volume offers an oblique look at the complex wash of global influences in the early modern period as seen from the perspective of gardens east and west.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Early Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The challenging nature of this research and its goal of opening up new horizons in cross-cultural garden studies is laudable and highly valuable, and the book\u003cstrong\u003e’\u003c\/strong\u003es limitations may be viewed as offering ideas for future research. The editor has brought together the work of scholars whose novel approaches raise new questions, paving the way for alternative, complex, and layered garden histories, histories that go beyond the limitations posed by current disciplinary boundaries and cultural constraints.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—B. Deniz Çalis Kural \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This welcome contribution to the field of gardens and landscape studies is notable for its innovative approach that foregrounds the intertwined histories of Islamic and European Renaissance garden traditions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and offers thus a much-needed corrective to the general Eurocentric bias still looming over studies of the Renaissance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Shirine Hamadeh \u003ci\u003eTurcica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: The Renaissance in the Global Context Mohammad Gharipour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Prologue: Paradigm Problems; Islamic Gardens in an Expanding Field D. Fairchild Ruggles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Embracing the Other: Venetian Garden Design, Early Modern Travelers, and the Islamic Landscape Christopher Pastore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Staging the Civilizing Elements in the Gardens of Rome and Istanbul Simone M. Kaiser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The Art of Garden Design in France: Ottoman Influences at the Time of the “Scandalous Alliance” Laurent Paya\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 “For Beauty, and Air, and View”: Contemplating the Wider Surroundings of Sixteenth-Century Mughal and European Gardens Jill Sinclair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The Gardens of Safavid Isfahan and Renaissance Italy: A New Urban Landscape? Mohammad Gharipour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 “Elysian Fields Such as the Poets Dreamed Of”: The Mughal Garden in the Early Stuart Mind Paula Henderson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Garden Encounters: Portugal and India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Cristina Castel-Branco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Carved Pools, Rock-Cut Elephants, Inscriptions, and Tree Columns: Mughal Landscape Art as Imperial Expression and Its Analogies to the Renaissance Garden Ebba Koch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Epilogue: Italian Renaissance Gardens and the Middle East; Cultural Exchange in the \u003ci\u003eLongue Durée\u003c\/i\u003e Anatole Tchikine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400797102423,"sku":"9780271077796","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271077796.jpg?v=1730471602","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gardens-of-renaissance-europe-and-the-islamic-empires-9780271077796","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}