Class Blurb: Medieval & Renaissance Gardens

[bunnyjadwiga]

Ok, here's my draft class blurb for this class. Obviously it can't just say "the instructor will wander around the classroom passing around books and babbling randomly about the elements of medieval/renaissance garden design."

Development, design, and elements of medieval and Renaissance gardens. View and discuss depictions of period gardens and layouts. Elements you can incorporate in your own garden or encampment. Enclosures, turfseats, decorations, plants, etc. Handouts available.

Here's links to 2 of the three handouts. I don't post the picture-pages I use because I have not found out the copyright status of the book I took most of them from, Frank Crisp's Medieval Gardens.

• http://gallowglass.org/jadwiga/herbs/medievalgardens.htm
  
• http://gallowglass.org/jadwiga/herbs/yourgarden.html
  

Comments

Picture copyright

[strawberrykaren.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the Medieval Herb, Plant and Flower Illustrations and 200 Illustrations from Gerard's Herbal clip-art sets? Dunno if they'd be helpful to this particular project -- I have the Gerard set as part of a larger software package, and have used it for some Elizabethan-style embroidery -- but they could be a good source of illustrations without copyright worries for future projects.

I have a couple of those new Dover CD sets and I like 'em a lot. The fancy graphics on my website are based on another set in that series. :)

[ealdthryth.livejournal.com]

Looks neat! Wish I could take the class.

[amazon-42.livejournal.com]

I bet you'd get more students with the original blurb. I know I'D take it. (grin)