{"product_id":"late-medieval-enclosed-gardens-of-b-baert-9789042932333","title":"Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries: Contributions to Gender and Artistic Expression","description":"During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of 'mixed media' recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: Enclosed Gardens. These are retables, sometimes with painted side panels, the central section filled not only with narrative sculpture, but also with all sorts of trinkets and hand-worked textiles. Adornments include relics, wax medallions, gemstones set in silver, pilgrimage souvenirs, parchment banderoles, flowers made from textiles with silk thread, semi-precious stones, pearls and quilling (a decorative technique using rolled paper). The ensemble is an impressive and one-of-a-kind display and presents as an intoxicating garden. In this essay the exceptional heritage of such Enclosed Gardens is interpreted from a range of approaches. The Enclosed Garden is studied as a symbol of paradise and mystical union, as the sanctuary of interiority, as the sublimation of the sensorium (in particular the sense of smell), as a typical gendered product, and as a centre of psycho-energetic creative processes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e B. Baert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9042932333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789042932333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peeters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.40d","brand":"B. Baert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44159462801663,"sku":"9789042932333","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b49a227-882d-4ad0-8352-e5c000da89ce.jpg?v=1689082753","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/late-medieval-enclosed-gardens-of-b-baert-9789042932333","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}