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    Locus amoenus (Latin for "pleasant place") is a literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort. A locus amoenus is usually a beautiful...
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    tree and the sacred grove. Trees are an attribute of the archetypical locus amoenus. In many parts of the world travelers have observed the custom of hanging...
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    painting by Italian artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Garden of Eden Locus amoenus Millennialism Neverland Olam Haba Otherworld Bridget Ann Henish, The...
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    closer to the golden age than the rest of human life. The setting is a locus amoenus, or a beautiful place in nature, sometimes connected with images of...
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    (link) Samson, Alexander. Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance, 2012 :6 Samson, Alexander. Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture...
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    English at King's College, London. Her doctoral thesis was titled The Locus Amoenus in Old English: Guthlac A and its Cultural Context. Clare Lees and Jane...
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    became a synonym for any rural area that serves as a pastoral setting, a locus amoenus ("delightful place"). The Biblical Garden of Eden as depicted in the...
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  • that Galadriel was one of the bearers of that light. Lothlórien is a locus amoenus, an idyllic land that Tolkien describes as having "no stain". The Tolkien...
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    examples of topoi are the following: the locus amoenus (for example, the imaginary world of Arcadia) and the locus horridus (for example, Dante's Inferno);...
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    description of the palaces of Neptune and the Samorim of Calicute, the locus amoenus of the Island of Love (Canto IX), the dinner in the palace of Thetis...
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    sexuality, often associated with the classic and medieval trope of the locus amoenus. In the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri places the Garden at the top...
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    existence Liminal deity – Gods of boundaries or transitions Limit situation Locus amoenus – Literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort Phase...
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    part of the poem's story is set in a walled garden, an example of a locus amoenus, a traditional literary topos in epic poetry and chivalric romance....
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    her up to meet her fated match, and deposits her in a lovely meadow (locus amoenus), where she promptly falls asleep. The transported girl awakes to find...
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  • Joan Fuguet i Sans (2004). La casa del Palau del Temple, de Barcelona. Locus Amoenus. Pavón Benito, Julia (2018). "El Cartulario del Temple de la encomienda...
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    Press. pp. 176–177. ISBN 978-1-8421-2469-7. Samson, Alexander (2012). Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance. p. 6. Sharp, Buchanan...
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    Orlando learns the truth, by finding the pair's secret garden of love, or Locus Amoenus, he goes mad with despair and rampages through Europe and Africa destroying...
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  • Goethe, in his West-eastern Divan, associates it with the ultimate locus amoenus of the Islamic paradise. In his poem titled Deserving Men, which describes...
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    popularity attests to the Byzantines’ enthusiasm for pleasure gardens (locus amoenus). More formal gardening texts, such as the Geoponika (10th century)...
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    inserted by Boccaccio in a setting very different from natural to Dante, a locus amoenus in which assumes traits much less gruesome and more like those of a...
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  • lugar en la revista "Feminal" (1907-1917)". Locus Amoenus (in Spanish) (15): 223–244. doi:10.5565/rev/locus.299. ISSN 1135-9722. Retrieved 6 February 2023...
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    location of the Catholic Convent of the Hortus Conclusus Gaston Bachelard Locus amoenus Topophilia Renaissance garden Clifford, A History of Garden design,...
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    as opposed to life in the city, with its dangers and intrigues. The Locus Amoenus or description of nature in all its idyllic perfection. Jorge Manrique...
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    curved bow, first performance: Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, Germany 2010 locus amoenus (2014) for cello with curved bow, first performance: Foundation Domnick...
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    specialty is landscape paintings, specifically idyllic landscapes such as Locus amoenus that posit subjects into the Venetian Countryside. This painting shows...
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  • Domus Aurea" "金宫的絮语" 2:44 12. "Tears of Days Past" "昔时泪迹" 1:29 13. "Locus Amoenus" "丰饶美地" 1:37 14. "Tuba Mirum" "征程号角" 1:23 15. "Rex Tremendae" "赫赫君王"...
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    (2016, Sacred Bones) Hyper Super Mega (2018, Sacred Bones) Pan (2022, Locus Amoenus) Berlin (2023, Sacred Bones) EPs Ancient Land (2011, Sacred Bones) Singles...
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  • been criticized and has become much less prevalent. A similar motif, Locus amoenus, is popular in medieval literature (esp. allegory and romance). A dream...
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    del santuari cinccentista de la serra del Corredor" (PDF). (4.11 MB). Locus Amoenus, UAB, núm. 6 (2002-2003), p. 187-22 41°37′35″N 2°28′48″E / 41.62639°N...
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    to his friend Niccolò Niccoli in Florence, he described Baden as a locus amoenus, an idealized place of pleasure in the sense of the ancient poets and...
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