Locus Amoenus / Renaissance Studies Special Issues (PDF)
Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance
(Sprache: Englisch)
Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of newperspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of itsdevelopment. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of ourknowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related totheir...
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Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of newperspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of itsdevelopment. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of ourknowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related totheir environment.
* A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on gardenhistory
* Essays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how thenatural world looked and how humans related to theirenvironment
* The book's broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literaryreflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human'splace within it
* Contributors come from a wide range of experts, includingarchaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to theRoyal Horticultural Society
* Reflects the growing emergence of this field, which has beenassisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies andenvironmental criticism
* Richly illustrated throughout
* A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on gardenhistory
* Essays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how thenatural world looked and how humans related to theirenvironment
* The book's broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literaryreflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human'splace within it
* Contributors come from a wide range of experts, includingarchaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to theRoyal Horticultural Society
* Reflects the growing emergence of this field, which has beenassisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies andenvironmental criticism
* Richly illustrated throughout
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Notes on contributors ix Introduction Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance Alexander Samson 1 1 The world of the Renaissance herbal Brent Elliott 24 2 Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English 'Renaissance' garden Paula Henderson 42 3 River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy Claudia Lazzaro 70 4 Dissembling his art: 'Gascoigne's Gardnings' Susan C. Staub 95 5 'My innocent diversion of gardening': Mary Somerset's plants Jennifer Munroe 111 6 Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda Alexander Samson 124 7 Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens Brian Dix 151 Index 183
Autoren-Porträt
Alexander Samson lectures on early modern Spain and LatinAmerica at University College London. He is also the co-director ofthe Centre for Early Modern Exchanges. His research interestsinclude Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchange, the marriage ofPhilip II and Mary Tudor, and the Golden Age comedia. He isthe editor of The Spanish Match: Prince Charles's Journeyto Madrid, 1623 (2006) and A Companion to Lope deVega (with Jonathan Thacker, 2008).
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2012, 1. Auflage, 210 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Alexander Samson
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 111823281X
- ISBN-13: 9781118232811
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2012
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