Locus Amoenus

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

ISBN	1444361511	Pages	210
ISBN13	9781444361513 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	348
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd	Published in	Chicester
Imprint	Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)	Series title	Renaissance Studies Special Issues
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	227
Publication date	21 Feb 2012	Width (mm)	152
DEWEY	635.09031	Spine width (mm)	10
DEWEY edition	DC23	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly

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

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Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance