ISBN:
9780415779456
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (345 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version An Environmental History of the Middle Ages : The Crucible of Nature
DDC:
304.2094/0902
Keywords:
Human ecology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Four elements (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Forests and forestry -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Animals -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Human-animal relationships -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Middle Ages
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Animals ; Europe ; History ; To 1500
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Forests and forestry ; Europe ; History ; To 1500
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Four elements (Philosophy) ; Social aspects ; Europe ; History ; To 1500
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Human ecology ; Europe ; History ; To 1500
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Human-animal relationships ; Europe ; History ; To 1500
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Middle Ages
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Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; Europe ; History ; To 1500
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings.?An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind's relationship with the environment shifted gradually over time from a predominantly adversarial approach to something more overtly collaborative, until a series of ecological crises in the late Middle Ages. With the advent of shattering events such as the Great Famine and the Black Death, considered efflorescences of the climate downturn
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; An Environmental History of the Middle Ages; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Air, water, earth; In the beginning …; Worshipping the elements; The Medieval Warm Period; Harnessing the elements; Collaboration, or exploitation?; The Little Ice Age; Earth, wind, and death; Environmental causes of the plague; Man-made pollution of the environment; The poison thesis; Weather magic; Part II: Forest; Pre-Christian tree cults; Surviving wildwood at the start of the Middle Ages
Description / Table of Contents:
The early medieval woodlandAn era of "great clearances"?; A brief history of the royal forest of England; The evidence of the eyre rolls; Managing the king's woods; Disafforestment and the rise of private woodland; The management of woods elsewhere; Shaping the idea of wilderness; A renaissance in regrowth of the forest?; Part III: Beast; Animals on the farm: the Early Middle Ages; Animals on the farm: the High and Late Middle Ages; Animals as pets and companions; Animals of the hunt: origins of medieval hunting; Animals of the hunt: deer and other game
Description / Table of Contents:
Animals of the hunt: romance vs. realityAnimals of the hunt: falconry and fishing; Animals and disease; Animals on trial; Animals in the bed; Animals and magic; Afterword; Notes; Preface; Introduction; Part I; Part II; Part III; Afterword; Bibliography; General Works; Part I; Part II; Part III; Index;
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