Hortus Conclusus

During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of ‘mixed media’ recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: enclosed gardens. They date from the ti...

The project is an enclosed walled garden for the Maggie’s Centre at Lanarkshire Hospital in Airdrie. Maggie’s Centres provide the physical space for practical, emotional and social...

This chapter inquires into the formal and metaphorical connections between medieval French churches and the paradisiacal garden. Drawing on textual and visual evidence, it demonstr...