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The Southern Heirloom Garden
Published in Hardcover by Taylor Pub (1995)
Authors: William C. Welch, Greg Grant, Peggy Cornett Newcomb, Thomas Christopher, Nancy Volkman, Hilary Somerville Irvin, James R. Cothran, Richard Westmacott, Rudy J. Favreti, and Flora Ann Vynum
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Rich and instructive.
"The Southern Heirloom Garden" is a rich and instructive work.

At the start of the book, William C. Welch and Greg Grant tell us that "gardening is one of the oldest, and richest, of our Southern folk arts."

The authors divide the book into two sections. The first section refreshingly explores French, German, Spanish, Native American, and African-American contributions to Southern gardening.

The Spanish, for instance, intensely developed and utilized small garden spaces, while African-Americans used brightly-colored flowers in the front yard as a sign of welcome.

This section also has a commendable essay on historic garden restoration in the South.

The second section addresses the plants "our ancestors used to build and enrich their gardens."

There are nearly 200 full-color photographs here, along with dozens of rare vintage engravings. While some of the pictures are a bit small, they are still informative.

Southern gardeners and historians will particularly enjoy this fine volume.

Great Book
This is a really great book. I loved the essays on each plant. Greg Grant is very humorous. This is not just a coffee table book, although the pictures are beautiful. It offers advise and inspiration to those of us who will never have the "Southern Living Landscape" look.

Excellent presentation on traditional Southern plants
In these days of trying the "Western grass garden" or the "English perennial border" it's particularly refreshing to study a book devoted to plants that happily grow in the Southern humidity and heat. While the opening chapters on historical gardens in the new world (French, Spanish, etc.) were interesting, the later chapters on plants were the most informative. When reading I could hear my Grandmother using the same commonplace names, like "paw-paw" and how to make jelly from the fruit. The challenge will now be to find some of these plants. (The authors admit some plants are only available from old gardens in the South). It remains one of my favorite garden books for its affectionate commentary on one of the oldest southern pastimes - our gardens and the talking and sharing of plants with loved ones.


Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Published in Paperback by Viking Press (1990)
Authors: Richard William Southern and R. W. Southerm
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Church and State in the Middle Ages
R.W. Southern's book is the second in a series of seven on the history of the Church. It begins with Pope Gregory II in the early eighth century and traces the development of the Church to the beginning of Henry VIII's reign in the early sixteenth century. Southern's emphasis is on the relationship between the Church as a religious institution and the political institutions of the Middle Ages, giving little attention to the Church's spiritual and theological components. The bulk of this volume covers the East-West schism of 1054, the papacy, the archbishops and bishops, and the various religious orders of this period. This book is scholarly in its approach, yet writtten in a very readable style. It gave me a much better understanding of the complex interactions between the Church and state during this period. I can recommend this volume to anyone interested in learning more about this era.

Superb treatment of the subject!
What Southern attempts is daunting, to say the least: In 360 pages, he seeks to analyze how the church and society interacted during the entire 700-year period of the Middle Ages. And he has done a superb job of it. His book is comprehenisive without sounding platitudinous nor mired in detail, subtle without being rarefied. Another reviewer criticizes him for not giving enough attention to spiritual and theological aspects of the Middles Ages. The first part of this criticism is flatly false--the spiritual, insofar as they interact with society, abound in the book--and the second part is unwarranted, since Southern states in his first chapter that theological discussion lies outside the purview of the book. The reviewer, however, is correct in saying that it's a highly readable book. If you love church history--or want to learn how it should be written--this is a book you can't miss.


Fictions of Labor : William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution
Published in Hardcover by Cambridge University Press (1997)
Author: Richard Godden
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Forest Fragmentation in the Southern Rocky Mountains
Published in Hardcover by University Press of Colorado (2000)
Authors: Richard L. Knight, Frederick W. Smith, Steven W. Buskirk, William H. Romme, and William L. Baker
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Medieval Humanism and Other Studies
Published in Paperback by Blackwell Publishers (1984)
Author: Richard William Southern
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A Place Not Forgotten: Landscapes of the South from the Morris Museum of Art
Published in Paperback by University of Kentucky Art Museum (1999)
Authors: Ga.) Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, Jessie Poesch, J. Richard Gruber, William W. Freehling, Wendell Berry, University of Kentucky Art Museum, and Sarah Tate
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Scanner Master Massachusetts, Rhode Island & Southern New Hampshire
Published in Paperback by Scanner Master Books (1995)
Authors: Richard Barnett, Edward Soomre, and William Cobb
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Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke:
Published in Hardcover by Greenwood Publishing Group (1979)
Authors: Richard William Hunt, William Abel Pantin, and Richard William Southern
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Tennessee Williams and the South
Published in Hardcover by Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) (2002)
Authors: W. Kenneth Holditch, Richard Freeman Leavitt, and Kenneth Holditch
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The world of Tennessee Williams
Published in Unknown Binding by W. H. Allen ()
Author: Richard F. Leavitt
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