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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

Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance

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Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 21/02/2012
    ISBN13: 9781444361513, 978-1444361513
    ISBN10: 1444361511

    Number of Pages: 210

    Non Fiction , Home & Garden

    Description

    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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