Locus Amoenus Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance

Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance By Alexander Samson (ed.)
2012 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1444361511 | PDF | 4 MB
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 ElliottChapter 2 Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English 'Renaissance' garden (pages 42-69): Paula HendersonChapter 3 River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth?century Italy (pages 70-94): Claudia LazzaroChapter 4 Dissembling his art: 'Gascoigne's Gardnings' (pages 95-110): Susan C. StaubChapter 5 'My innocent diversion of gardening': Mary Somerset's plants (pages 111-123): Jennifer MunroeChapter 6 Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda (pages 124-150): Alexander SamsonChapter 7 Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens (pages 151-182): Brian Dix