Publications

Authors:

Nicolini, M

Title:

Horticultural Titles. Seeds, Gardens, and English Law in seventeenth-century Virginia Plantations

Year:

2026

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Fruitful Spaces and Timeless Architectures: Gardens and Villas in Literature, Culture and Law

Publisher:

DeriveApprodi University Books

Page numbers:

251-296

Keyword:

Gardens; Colonies; Plantations; Law and Literature; Fences; Legal Landscapes

Short description of contents:

The essay examines the production of English colonial legal spaces in North America in the seventeenth century. Particularly in Virginia, their production revolved around the concept of ‘plantation’, thus pointing to the acts of planting seeds, improving the land, and civilising non-Western environments. The legal geography of these settlements was made up of gardening, agriculture, and fences. Colonisers transplanted new plants and seeds (and new legal regimes) into American soil, outlawing the previous vegetation, populace, and native legal titles. From the perspective of the colonisers, these changes were functional to maximising the profits of the colonial enterprise and reinforcing colonial legal geographies, based on exotic legal imaginaries and landscapes.

Product ID:

149661

Handle IRIS:

11562/1181933

Last Modified:

February 7, 2026

Bibliographic citation:

Nicolini, M, Horticultural Titles. Seeds, Gardens, and English Law in seventeenth-century Virginia Plantations Fruitful Spaces and Timeless Architectures: Gardens and Villas in Literature, Culture and Law , DeriveApprodi University Books , 2026 , pp. 251-296

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