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Locus Amoenus
Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance
Renaissance Studies Special Issues Series
Coordinator: Samson Alexander
Language: EnglishSubject for Locus Amoenus:
Keywords
Gardens; Renaissance; horticulture; garden history; natural world; plants; landscape
210 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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- 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
Introduction Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance
Alexander Samson1
1 The world of the Renaissance herbal
Brent Elliott24
2 Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ garden
Paula Henderson42
3 River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy
Claudia Lazzaro70
4 Dissembling his art: ‘Gascoigne’s Gardnings’
Susan C. Staub95
5 ‘My innocent diversion of gardening’: Mary Somerset’s plants
Jennifer Munroe111
6 Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega’s Novelas a Marcia Leonarda
Alexander Samson124
7 Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens
Brian Dix151
Index 183
Alexander Samson lectures on early modern Spain and Latin America at University College London. He is also the co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges. His research interests include Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchange, the marriage of Philip II and Mary Tudor, and the Golden Age comedia. He is the editor of The Spanish Match: Prince Charles’s Journey to Madrid, 1623 (2006) and A Companion to Lope de Vega (with Jonathan Thacker, 2008).