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Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance
By
Alexander Samson (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackwell Pub
Publication date
April 3, 2012
Pages
200
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781444361513
ISBN-10
1444361511
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$35.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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
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Paperback
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from Blackwell Pub (April 3, 2012)
9781444361513 | details & prices | 200 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $35.95
About: Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development.
About: Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development.
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