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Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance
Contributor(s): Samson, Alexander (Editor)
ISBN: 1444361511     ISBN-13: 9781444361513
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $35.63  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Renaissance
- Gardening
Dewey: 635.090
LCCN: 2011042245
Series: Renaissance Studies Special Issues
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 210 pages
 
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Publisher 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