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Locus Amoenus : Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance by Samson, Alexander (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Locus Amoenus : Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance about?
__Locus Amoenus__ provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment. * A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden history * Essays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment * The book's broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literary reflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human's place within it * Contributors come from a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to the Royal Horticultural Society * Reflects the growing emergence of this field, which has been assisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies and environmental criticism * Richly illustrated throughout Content: Chapter 1 The world of the Renaissance herbal (pages 24–41): Brent ElliottChapter 2 Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ garden (pages 42–69): Paula HendersonChapter 3 River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth?ce
Who reads Locus Amoenus : Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Samson, Alexander (editor)
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781444396751
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Western, History
