Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV

by Elisabeth Hyde and Elizabeth Hyde

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238265
• ISBN13: 9780812238266
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.1"