Locus Amoenus

Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance

Nonfiction, History, Renaissance
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Author: ISBN: 9781118232804
Publisher: Wiley Publication: February 2, 2012
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781118232804
Publisher: Wiley
Publication: February 2, 2012
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English

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
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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.

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