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At court, flowers coloured, scented, adorned, sustained, nourished, and enthralled. These interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial, and represented objects across the Tudor and Stuart courts in gardens, literature, painting, interior furnishing, garments, and as jewels, medicine, and food. Situating this burgeoning floral culture within a European floral revolution of science, natural history, global trade, and colonial expansion, they reveal the court’s distinctive floral identity and history.
En la corte, las flores coloreaban, perfumaban, adornaban, sostenÃan, nutrÃan y cautivaban. Estos ensayos interdisciplinares abordan las flores como objetos reales, artificiales y representados en las cortes de los Tudor y los Estuardo en jardines, literatura, pintura, decoración de interiores, prendas de vestir, joyas, medicinas y alimentos. Situando esta floreciente cultura floral dentro de la revolución floral europea de la ciencia, la historia natural, el comercio global y la expansión colonial, revelan la identidad floral distintiva de la corte y su historia.