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LOCUS AMOENUS
GARDENS AND HORTICULTURE IN THE RENAISSANCE

By:

Alexander Samson (Editor)

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Paperback

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1444361511

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

21 February, 2012

Series:

Renaissance Studies Special Issues

Pages:

210

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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. * 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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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

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