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Locus amoenus : gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance / edited by Alexander Samson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Renaissance studies special issues.
- Renaissance studies special issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens--Europe, Western--History--16th century.
- Gardens.
- Gardens--Social aspects--Europe, Western--History--16th century.
- Gardening--Europe, Western--History--16th century.
- Gardening.
- Horticulture--Europe, Western--History--16th century.
- Horticulture.
- Gardens, Renaissance--History.
- Gardens, Renaissance.
- Gardens in literature.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Renaissance.
- Europe, Western--Social life and customs--16th century.
- Europe, Western.
- Europe, Western--Intellectual life--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 historyEssays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environmentThe book's broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literary reflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, a
- Contents:
- Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance; 1: The world of the Renaissance herbal; 2: Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English 'Renaissance' garden; 3: River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy; 4: Dissembling his art: 'Gascoigne's Gardnings'; 5: 'My innocent diversion of gardening': Mary Somerset's plants; 6: Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda
- 7: Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardensIndex
- Notes:
- "Originally published as volume 25, issue 1 of Renaissance studies"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613617811
- 9781118232804
- 1118232801
- 9781280587986
- 1280587989
- 9781118232798
- 1118232798
- 9781118232781
- 111823278X
- 9781118232811
- 111823281X
- OCLC:
- 795795374
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