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Locus Amoenus : Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance, Paperback / softback Book

Locus Amoenus : Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance Paperback / softback

Edited by Alexander Samson

Part of the Renaissance Studies Special Issues series

Paperback / softback

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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 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, and human's place within itContributors come from a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to the Royal Horticultural SocietyReflects the growing emergence of this field, which has been assisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies and environmental criticismRichly illustrated throughout

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