Renaissance Studies Special Issues

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

Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture. • Puts forward original research, including evidence provided by an in-depth study arising from the Medieval & Renaissance Gallery project • Contributions are unusual in their combination of a variety of approaches, but with each paper starting with an examination of the objects themselves • New theories emerge from several papers, some of which challenge current thinking