Author: John EvelynPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Diary of John Evelyn
Author: John EvelynJohn Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening
Author: Therese O'MalleyPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022404
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a pivotal figure in 17th-century intellectual life in England. The contributors approach him and his work from diverse disciplines: architectural and intellectual history and histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present the "Elysium Britannicum" as a central document of late European humanism.
Acetaria
Author: John EvelynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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John Evelyn
Author: John Dixon HuntPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780238703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The great English writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620–1706) kept a diary all his life. Today, this diary is considered an invaluable source of information on more than fifty years of social, cultural, religious, and political life in seventeenth-century England. Evelyn’s work is often overshadowed by the literary contributions of his contemporary and friend, Samuel Pepys. This new biography changes that. John Dixon Hunt takes a fresh look at the life and work of one of England’s greatest diarists, focusing particularly on Evelyn’s “domesticity.” The book explores Evelyn’s life at home, and perhaps even more importantly, his domestication of foreign ideas and practices in England. During the English Civil Wars, Evelyn traveled extensively throughout Europe, taking in ideas on the management of estate design while abroad to apply them in England. Evelyn’s greatest accomplishment was the import of European garden art to the UK, a feat Hunt puts into context alongside a range of Evelyn’s social and ethical thinking. Illustrated with visual material from Evelyn’s time and from his own pen, the book is an ideal introduction to a hugely important figure in the shaping of early modern Britain.
Elysium Britannicum, Or the Royal Gardens
Author: John EvelynPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812235364
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Interlacing in his work practical, literary, and philosophical approaches to landscape architecture, Evelyn created the first large-scale encyclopedic work on the science and art of gardening."--BOOK JACKET.
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
Author: Margaret WillesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests—diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books—and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.
Fumifugium, Or, The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated
Author: John EvelynSylva
Author: John NisbetPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780341786177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
John Evelyn
Author: Gillian DarleyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300112276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"This new biography ... is the first to make full use of Evelyn's huge unpublished archive deposited at the British Library in 1995. This crucial source evokes a broader and richer picture of Evelyn, his life and his friendships, than permitted by his own celebrated diaries."--Dust jacket.
Transformations of Love
Author: Frances HarrisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199270323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
John Evelyn ranks with his friend Samuel Pepys as one of the best loved of English diarists. This is an absorbing new study of the most controversial episode of his life: his passionate "seraphic" friendship with Margaret Godolphin, a maid of honor at the Restoration court of Charles II. Set against the vivid background of the court and the great gardens of the time, Transformations of Love provides new insights into the sexual and spiritual worlds of early modern England.