Presents the revised versions of papers delivered at a colloquium of the same name held at Dumbarton Oaks in November 1996. The volume's 11 chapters cover such topics as scholarship on Byzantine gardens; Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of gardens; and herbs in the field and garden in Byzantine medicinal
Presents the revised versions of papers delivered at a colloquium of the same name held at Dumbarton Oaks in November 1996. The volume's 11 chapters cover such topics as scholarship on Byzantine gardens; Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of gardens; and herbs in the field and garden in Byzantine medicinal