Introduction: Gardens, Landscape and the Human Imaginary
Out of Eden: The Framing of Eve
Une communion inimitable: Material Garden Hermeneutics in the Work of the Women of Mechelen, Herrad of Hohenbourg and Hildegard of Bingen
Gertrude of Helfta and Mechthild of Hackeborn: An Arboreal Imaginary of Flourishing
Relocating Mechthild's Garden Hermeneutics: The Middle English Poem Pearl
'Straightened on Every Side': Susanna's Garden Dilemma
Afterword: The Garden Hermeneutic in the Age of COVID-19
Bibliography
Index

LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.