The two articles analyzed in the essay are Sharon Farm article entitled Aristocratic Power and the “Natural Landscape” The Garden Park at Hesdin and Abigail P. Dowling article entitled Landscape Luxuries: Mahaut d’Artois’s (1302-1329) Management and Use of Park at Hesdin. The two articles focus on the Park of Hesdin that was transformed through the order of Count Robert II of Artois in Northern France. Park Hesdin was transformed to become one of the famous, fantastic and unusual parks of Northern Europe until the end of 15th century. Count Robert II gave Park Hesdin a definitive shape that was endowed with features that were amazing and attractive. The Hesdin Park article by Abigail P. Dowling is more captivating than the article by Sharon …show more content…
The thesis of the authors was the main factors that help determine whether one article was more captivating than the other. Abigail P. Dowling thesis was to demonstrate the importance of the relationship that exists between aristocratic identity and land management. To support the thesis, Abigail mainly focuses on the selection of water, wood and plant harvesting as example to illustrate the important relationship that existed between aristocratic identity and land management (Dowling, 2012). The park contained variety of wood, plants and amazing water bodies that were attracted attention of various scholars. These were the main strong point of the Hesdon Park hence it was appropriate for Abigail to uses these elements to support her …show more content…
The thesis is also supported by relevant facts that are intended to give readers a thorough understanding of the importance of the theme. For example, after stating thesis statement Abigail went further and provides justification for the theme. She also indicated the evidence that she will use to support the theme. One evident that was clearly stated in support of theme was provision of the evidence from the two bailliages that were under the control of the countess in comparison with Hesdin relative productivity. The aim of comparing two other bailliages under the control of countess with Hesdin relative productivity was to give readers clear evidence that Park of Hesdin was more productive. Another significant element of Abigail article is that she limited the study between 1302 and1310 (Dowling, 2012). The main aim of this was for the study not to capture the period that was characterized with devastating environmental affects that was brought by great famine in 1314. This shows that the article was trying to be neutral since the Great Famine of 1314 significantly changed land management practices and this could have also affected the land management practices at Park of
Although Leopold’s love of great expanses of wilderness is readily apparent, his book does not cry out in defense of particular tracts of land about to go under the axe or plow, but rather deals with the minutiae, the details, of often unnoticed plants and animals, all the little things that, in our ignorance, we have left out of our managed acreages but which must be present to add up to balanced ecosystems and a sense of quality and wholeness in the landscape.
How could the reader benefit from reading this essay? The author want to make people realise the importance of nature and wants people to preserve environment by saying trees and animals. The author also wants the audience to realise how the people generations before us use to live without the facilities that we have in today’s world.
This anthropocentric theme continues throughout his narrative but is personified on a societal level. This matter is first introduced in the chapter “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and The National Parks.” In this chapter Abbey notes the expansionist nature of the industrial economy and how it is affecting the national parks. Abbey critiques arguments for uni...
John Muir and Edward Abbey are both in agreement when it comes to the tampering of national parks; they both had a disdain for commercialization or industrialization of the natural landscape of them. Muir was a preservationist who believed the natural landscape, especially significant areas of beauty like Hetch Hetchy Valley which was ultimately dammed, should be left alone. He felt places like Hetch Hetchy were resources for “uplifting joy and peace and health of the people (370).” Meaning their value to humans was much greater if left uncommercialized and unpolluted. Muir also believed people overstepped their bounds when they drastically altered the environment for their own self-interest;
Swarthmoor Hall and the Lifestyle of a Wealthy Country Gentry Family in the Early 17th Century
This mid to late-19th century account of an early Victorian (English) public park illustrates the change of function and transformation of the Victorian public park from its original role as an upper-middle class observatory of Nature to its redefinition as this class' s social observatory of the lower classes. Between the years of 1840 and 1860, the public park's role in the eyes of England' s upper crust changed drastically due to the economic and political structure of Victorian England during this time and J.M. Milton's quote reflects this reality.
Industrial Tourism has taken over the countries national parks. With millions of visitors a year, they have become polar opposite of their intended purpose. When the National Park Service was created in 1916, the founders could not have imagined how popular the national parks have become. One man who experienced this growth personally was Edward Abbey. During the 1950’s Abbey worked three summers as a park ranger in Arches National Park. While he saw a large increase in the visitation, but today however, the number of people visiting the parks is decresing. He wrote in journals which were turned into the compilation now called Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. This was before paved roads and buildings were created throughout the
Einhard was a courtier in Charlemagne’s Frankish Kingdom. During Charlemagne’s rule/life (768-824), he dedicated a vast amount of time and energy into supporting the notions of classical learning. He went so far as to start a school comprised of many scholars within his palace. Their role was to educate the nobility, the priesthood and the people, as well as hold counsel with the king. This is where Einhard and Charlemagne first encountered each other. Einhard was a small but intelligent man who came to prominence in the PiousCharlemagne’s and Charlemagne’s son’s kingdom. It is often asked how such a small man came to be the heart of the kingdom, and how the court school and the opportunities it provided influenced his success. During the late 8th and early 9th century, Charlemagne came to power. He expanded the kingdom and conceived many reforms during his reign.
“A Pilgrim’s Visit to The Five Terraces Mountains”. Making of the Modern World 12: Classical & Medieval Tradition. Trans. Richard F. Burton. Ed. Janet Smarr. La Jolla: University Readers, 2012. 108-110. Print.
The final plan of the garden by Le Nôtre was decided in 1668. The major axis of the gardens was traced following the sun path from east to west (Figure 7). This is also associated with Louis, expressing how his power as the Sun king is over nature. The axis created a great perspective going from the Water Parterre and finish at the Grand Canal. Similarly, a secondary perspective going from north to south orientation, from the Neptune Fountain and finished at the Swiss Pool (Figure 7). Along these two axes, fourteen groves are planted with palisades of clipped bushes bounded around it. Both the site layout of Versailles and the gardens are associated with the sun in some aspects. Consistently, both of them have the same implication of the king’s power over nature and the absolute monarchy of Louis.
Muir’s wilderness is rooted in the idea of an aesthetically pleasing natural scape given they fit into certain criteria such as, “ none of Nature’s landscape’s are ugly so long as they are wild” (Muir). The attachment of this emphasis on an aesthetically pleasing landscape was partial truth, which drove people out the national parks. While these places where indeed wild and beautiful, Muir sold the masses on this idea of all nature being pristine and pure, when in reality that was not the
Heffernan, James A. W. The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner. Hanover: UP of New England, 1985.
Although I think Goethe's relationship to nature is undeniable, perhaps his "appropriation" of nature is less clear. I think the term "appropriation" is the cause of the problem in identifying his true relationship to nature. In our presentation we presented examples of the appropriation of nature through Romantic literature. The most direct example of this was in Anne's detailed description of English landscape gardening where nature was physically appropriated to create the picturesque. Here we can see the distinction between any concept of Goethe's appropriation of nature and the real and physical appropriation by English landscapers.
Although this extremely close connection of the individual with nature, the basic principle of Japanese gardens, has remained the constant throughout its history, the ways in which this principle has come to be expressed has undergone many great changes. Perhaps the most notable occurred in the very distinct periods in Japanese history that popularized unique forms of garden style—Heian (781-1185), and the Kamakura (1186-1393). Resulting from these two golden ages of Japanese history came the stroll garden from the former period and the Zen garden from the later. As we shall see, the composition of these gardens where remarkably effected by the norms of architecture and the ideals of popular religion in these eras. Therefor, in understanding each garden style in its context, it essential to also take into account the social, historical, and theological elements as well as the main stylist differences.
This chapter explores the idea of landscape in an anthropological construct. Hirsch aims to move away from the western ideals of understanding of landscape, and deconstruct it in an attempt to understand the local interoperation of landscape to prove it is part of a cultural process. Landscape has been used as a “standard framing device” (p1) by those looking from the outside in across anthropological history. Hirsch is looking to explore the landscape through the cultural understandings of the local people. (p1-5)