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The jardinets (« gardens » or literally « shrubberies ») are artistic compositions representing the county of Hainault, through its idealized political hierarchy. This recurrent and powerful armorial garden takes the form of texts, images or performances. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries at least, it constitutes a symbolical transposition of the mental image people from Hainault have of their own county: a balanced and peaceful society, standing by its prince. To historians, it constitutes a pattern perceivable through both iconography and text. This article explores two different interpretations of the jardinets, as a representation of a social space and as a policy prescription.
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