The patrician gardens of Rome, AD 79-476
Byzantium and the Paradise Garden, AD 395-1453
Medieval Europe and the Hurtus Conclusus, 5th-15th centuries
The Italian renaissance: humanism, the high renaissance and mannerism, 15th-17th centuries
The French renaissance, 15th-17th centuries
Britain: the Tudors and Stuarts, 1509-1613
War in Europe and the Dutch golden age, 1613-1702
The swan song of the formal garden: England in the 18th century
The Victorian garden: England in the 19th century
The arts and crafts movement: the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Summing up: into the 21st century.
