Adriana MARTÍNEZ

Original title: El Medievo latino y la Naturaleza: la imagen del jardín en el Roman de la Rose

Published in The Medieval Aesthetics

Keywords: Garden, Middle Ages, Roman de la Rose.

The image of the garden, synecdoche of nature, which traverses the Latin middle ages is base don judeo-christian culture that makes the concept of Paradise. However, in the 12 th century a renewal is produced in thinking nature not only as a reality outside, inteligible, and in the following century, a text like the Roman de la Rose installed a concept of nature where the garden becomes privilegeg stage of love, a new Paradise.