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Die spätmittelalterlichen eingefassten Gärten oder horti conclusi in den Niederlanden

Author(s): Baert, Barbara

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The early sixteenth-century Enclosed Gardens or horti conclusi of the Augustinian Hospital Sisters of Mechelen, Belgium, form an exceptional part of late medieval world heritage. Most Enclosed Gardens have been lost, through the ravages of time exacerbated by lack of understanding and interest. No fewer than seven Enclosed Gardens, however, were preserved until the late twentieth century in their original context: the small community of Augustinian nuns in Mechelen. Like ›sleeping beauties‹, they remained secluded in the sisters’ rooms as aids to devotion. In this paper I discuss these gardens as a symbolisation of Paradise and the mystical union, as a sanctuary for interiorisation, as a sublimation of the sensorium (particularly smell), as horticulture that gains meaning in the making process and as a paradigm for the nest.

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Baert, Barbara: Die spätmittelalterlichen eingefassten Gärten oder horti conclusi in den Niederlanden. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 7 (2016), Nr. 1, S. 27-44. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18635.
@ARTICLE{Baert2016,
 author = {Baert, Barbara},
 title = {Die spätmittelalterlichen eingefassten Gärten oder horti conclusi in den Niederlanden},
 year = 2016,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18635}",
 volume = 7,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 1,
 pages = {27--44},
}
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