{"product_id":"locus-amoenus-isbn-9781444361513","title":"Locus Amoenus","description":"\u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEssays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe book's broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literary reflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human's place within it\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributors come from a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to the Royal Horticultural Society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReflects the growing emergence of this field, which has been assisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies and environmental criticism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRichly illustrated throughout\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Notes on contributors ix  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003ci\u003eLocus amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexander Samson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The world of the Renaissance herbal\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrent Elliott\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e24\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ garden\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaula Henderson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e42\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClaudia Lazzaro\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e70\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Dissembling his art: ‘Gascoigne’s Gardnings’\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan C. Staub\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e95\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ‘My innocent diversion of gardening’: Mary Somerset’s plants\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer Munroe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e111\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the \u003ci\u003ehuerto\u003c\/i\u003e and Lope de Vega’s \u003ci\u003eNovelas a Marcia Leonarda\u003cbr\u003e Alexander Samson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e124\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian Dix\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e151\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 183\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Samson\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ecomedia\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Match: Prince Charles’s Journey to Madrid\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1623\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Lope de Vega\u003c\/i\u003e (with Jonathan Thacker, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAgrarian innovation and new empirical approaches to plants and their cultivation transformed the landscape and natural world in early modern Europe. These changes not only laid the foundations for the industrial revolution, but reflected changing political and scientific ideas, social relations and religious thought. New leisure pursuits, the first public parks and ideas surrounding philosophical retreat developed together as the ownership of green spaces and their uses shifted between function and recreation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithin \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e, Alexander Samson provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on garden history and the impact of its development, focusing on the Renaissance era. Contributions from a wide range of experts in the field guide readers through the world of the Renaissance herbal, medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ garden, the personification of nature in sixteenth-century Italy, \u003ci\u003eGascoigne’s Gardnings\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Somerset’s plants and Spanish Renaissance gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese insightful contributions to Renaissance gardens and horticulture demonstrate the extent of our knowledge on how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment. Ultimately, they reveal that gardens were a reflection of our changing relationship with nature and as such, a reflection of our development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989540454629,"sku":"NP9781444361513","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444361513.jpg?v=1761784520","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/locus-amoenus-isbn-9781444361513","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}