Locus Amoenus
Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance
Agrarian 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. Within Locus Amoenus, Alexander Samson provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on garden history and the impact of its de…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-118-23281-1
- EAN: 9781118232811
- Produktnummer: 13889622
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
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).
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