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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 o...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Renaissance studies special issues
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118232781 |
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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 wit |
| Item Description: | "Originally published as volume 25, issue 1 of Renaissance studies"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781118232781 (electronic bk.) 111823278X (electronic bk.) 9781118232811 (electronic bk.) 111823281X (electronic bk.) 9781118232804 (electronic bk.) 1118232801 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | SB466 |
| CLC: | S6-095 |
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Front Matter -- Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance / Alexander Samson -- The world of the Renaissance herbal / Brent Elliott -- Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English ₁Renaissance₂ garden / Paula Henderson -- River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy / Claudia Lazzaro -- Dissembling his art: ₁Gascoigne's Gardnings₂ / Susan C Staub -- ₁My innocent diversion of gardening₂: Mary Somerset's plants / Jennifer Munroe -- Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the and Lope de Vega's / Alexander Samson -- Experiencing the past: the archaeolog Introduction: Locus amoenus : gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance / Alexander Samson -- The world of the Renaissance herbal / Brent Elliott -- Clinging to the past : medievalism in the English "Renaissance" garden / Paula Henderson -- River gods : personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy / Claudia Lazzaro -- Dissembling his art : "Gascoigne's Gardnings" / Susan C. Staub -- "My innocent diversion of gardening" : Mary Somerset's plants / Jennifer Munroe -- Outdoor pursuits : Spanish gardens, the "huerto," and Lope de Vega's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda / Alexander Samson -- Experien |