Les jardins de Tamerlan : jardins, pouvoir et sociabilité sous les Timourides d’Hérat by Anna CAIOZZO – Château de Bénouville
The gardens of Tamerlan: gardens, power and sociability under the Herāt Timurids
The Timurids were Turco-Mongols from Central Asia who succeeded the Central Asian Mongol sovereigns from the late 14th to the early 16th century. They are credited with the creation of mughal gardens, for their descendent, Babur, founded the said dynasty in North India.
This presentation will offer an insight into how visual culture and the illuminated poetic corpora represent the garden area, its organisation and various purposes, from the staging of symbols of power and some of its manifestations, to entertaining activities or intimate moments. Aristocratic by the sheer cost of their development, these gardens could also welcome other visitors, the learned and Sufis, for example.
Anna Caiozzo
Anna Caiozzo is a medieval history professor at the University of Orléans. As a historian and historian of the arts of the Islamic world, she works on the imagination and representations of Eastern Medieval culture, in particular visual culture and material sources. She directs the Valenciennes University Press ‘Gardens and Society’ collection.