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An environmental history of the Middle Ages : the crucible of nature / John Aberth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aberth, John, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Human ecology.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Nature.
- Four elements (Philosophy)--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Four elements (Philosophy).
- Forests and forestry--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Forests and forestry.
- Animals--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Animals.
- Human-animal relationships--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Middle Ages.
- Europe--Environmental conditions.
- Europe.
- Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 clima
- Contents:
- 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
- The Early Medieval Woodland
- An 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
- Animals of the Hunt : Romance vs. Reality
- Animals of the Hunt : Falconry and Fishing
- Animals and Disease
- Animals on Trial
- Animals in the Bed
- Animals and Magic
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-307) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-26302-0
- 1-283-91932-X
- 0-203-10769-1
- 1-136-26303-9
- 9780203107690
- OCLC:
- 823389958
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