Locus Amoenus Gardens And Horticulture In The Renaissance Alexander Samson Ed by Alexander Samson (ed.) 9781118232781, 9781444361513, 111823278X, 1444361511 instant download after payment.

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

Content:
Chapter 1 The world of the Renaissance herbal (pages 24–41): Brent Elliott
Chapter 2 Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ garden (pages 42–69): Paula Henderson
Chapter 3 River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth?century Italy (pages 70–94): Claudia Lazzaro
Chapter 4 Dissembling his art: ‘Gascoigne's Gardnings’ (pages 95–110): Susan C. Staub
Chapter 5 ‘My innocent diversion of gardening’: Mary Somerset's plants (pages 111–123): Jennifer Munroe
Chapter 6 Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda (pages 124–150): Alexander Samson
Chapter 7 Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens (pages 151–182): Brian Dix