Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV

Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation and display of flowers in early modern France and reveals how flowers became uniquely capable of revealing the curiosity, reason, and taste of those elite men who engaged in their cultivation. Hyde helps expand our knowledge of flowers in European history beyond the Dutch tulip mania, and restores our understanding of the importance of flowers in the French classical garden. Using flowers to analyse the movement of culture in early modern society, the book highlights the influence of curious florists on the taste of King Louis XIV, and the extension of the cultural into the realm of the political.

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