Locus Amoenus

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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

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Alexander Samson

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