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