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Title: GARDENS, LANDSCAPE AND VISION IN THE PALACES OF ISLAMIC SPAIN
By: D.Fairchild Ruggles
Format: Hardback

List price: £79.95


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ISBN 10: 0271018518
ISBN 13: 9780271018515
Publisher: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 31 December, 1999
Pages: 264
Description: An interpretation of the history of gardens in Spain during the period of Islamic rule (the 8th to the 15th century). It argues that the early palace garden was an environmental, economic and political construct, and that paradisiac symbolism did not develop until gardens acquired tombs.
Illustrations: 12 colour & 119 b&w illustrations
Returns: Returnable
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