The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle Keay Watkins Paperback 9781848020344

The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth CastleAuthor(s): Anna Keay, John Watkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Historic England, United Kingdom\nImprint: Historic England\nISBN-13: 9781848020344, 978-1848020344\nSynopsis\nThe garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. It is also the best documented of all the great gardens of its age, providing the starting point for English Heritages ambitious re-creation in 2009. \n\nThis beautifully illustrated book presents the extensive research that informed the scheme and describes the process by which the new garden was designed. Seventeen chapters, written by specialists and experts in the field, range widely, covering: the place of Kenilworth in garden history; the Earl of Leicester as a cultural patron and his work at Kenilworth; the results of the excavation of the garden site; detailed consideration of key aspects of the Elizabethan garden, incl.