THE CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
INVITES YOU TO A ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
EARLY-MODERN GARDENS
IN CONTEXT
(ROBERT EMMET THEATRE, ARTS BUILDING, SATURDAY 21st NOVEMBER 2009, 9.00 am-6.00 pm)
Speakers: Marie Addyman (The Open University), Helen Conrad-O’Briain (TCD), Jill Francis (Birmingham), Louise Harrington (independent scholar), Sue Hewer (Dundee), Brian Kingston (independent scholar), Eavan O’Brian (TCD), Laurent Paya (Montpellier), Dave Pollock (independent scholar), Sinéad Quirke (UCD), John Slater (University of Colorado, Boulder), Anne Stobart (Middlesex), Anatole Tchikine (TCD).
This is the inaugural conference organised by the ‘Early-Modern Gardens in Context’ research network, which is supported by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin. This international network was established in 2009 to bring together scholars, students, and independent researchers interested in various aspects of horticulture and garden design in 14th- through 17th-century Europe, Britain, and Ireland. Its aim is to promote the knowledge and appreciation of historic gardens by creating an interdisciplinary focus for their study. All enquiries concerning the network should be directed to Anatole Tchikine, the network coordinator, at tchikia@tcd.ie. For further information about the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin, please contact Sarah Alyn Stacey at salynsta@tcd.ie; telephone (00 353 1) 896 2686.
ALL WELCOME
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:
9.00-9.15 REGISTRATION/WELCOME
9.15-11.15 SESSION 1: Gardens, Literature, Gender
CHAIR: Sarah Alyn Stacey (Trinity College Dublin)
Helen Conrad O’Briain (Trinity College Dublin): Grammar and Gardens: A Pirate’s Garden in the Commentary Tradition: Georgics IV, lines 125-148
Eavan O’Brian (Trinity College Dublin): Up the Garden Path: Subversive Stories of Desire by María de Zayas and Leonor de Meneses
Marie Addyman (The Open University): Fruits of Love: Woman as Fruit in Shakespeare and Webster
John Slater (University of Colorado, Boulder): Embattled Flowers: Gardens and Warfare in Early Modern Spain
11.15-11.30 REFRESHMENTS
11.30-1.00 SESSION 2: Historic Gardens of Britain and Ireland
CHAIR: Christine Casey (Trinity College Dublin)
Sue Hewer (University of Dundee): Searching for the Baroque in Scotland’s Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Jill Francis (University of Birmingham): Defining Status and Identity in the Early-Modern Garden: Sir Thomas Temple and his ‘Little Gardine at Dassett Paled’
Dave Pollock (independent scholar): Excavated Garden Remains at a Medieval Castle in County Cork
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.30 SESSION 3: Herb, Vegetable, and Pleasure Gardens
CHAIR: Helen Conrad O’Briain (Trinity College Dublin)
Laurent Paya (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Montpellier): Le Thresor des Parterres de l’Univers (1629): un livre de modèles pour recueillir toute l’ornementation des parterres des jardins de la Renaissance
Anne Stobart (Middlesex University): ‘What Hearbs Best to be Gathered in March and Aprill’: Sourcing Medicinal Plants in Early-Modern Household Healthcare in South West England
Anatole Tchikine (Trinity College Dublin): Horticultural Differences: the Florentine Garden of Don Luis de Toledo and the Nuns of San Domenico del Maglio
3.30-4.00 REFRESHMENTS
4.00-5.30 SESSION 4: Studying Historic Gardens
CHAIR: Anatole Tchikine (Trinity College, Dublin)
Sinéad Quirke (University College Dublin): The King’s Garden, Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark: an Experimental Phenomenological Approach
Louise Harrington (independent scholar): The Use of Phenomenology in Demonstrating a Choreography of Movement in the Designed Landscape (with 17th- and 18th-century examples)
Brian Kingston (independent scholar): Sources for the Study of Irish Gardens, circa 1580–1690
5.30-6.00 CONCLUSION/DISCUSSION
