Reading the garden in Byzantium : nature and sexuality

Author

Barber, Charles

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Byzantine and modern Greek studies. 1992, Vol. 16, 1-19

ISSN

0307-0131

Abstract (en)

Considers the apposition of art and nature as a standard device of Byzantine verbal representations of the garden and suggests that an understanding of the garden is tied to an understanding of the male construction of Byzantine woman.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Architecture and excavations -- Gardens
• Gardens
• Aesthetics
• Byzantine
• Literature
• Representation
• Sexuality

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Architecture et fouilles -- Jardins
• Jardin
• Esthétique
• Byzantin (art)
• Littérature
• Représentation
• Sexualité

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00349487

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