An Environmental History of the Middle Ages : the Crucible of Nature.

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aberth, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Temas:
To 1500
Human ecology > Europe > History > To 1500.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Europe > History > To 1500.
Four elements (Philosophy) > Social aspects > Europe > History > To 1500.
Forests and forestry > Europe > History > To 1500.
Animals > Europe > History > To 1500.
Human-animal relationships > Europe > History > To 1500.
Middle Ages.
Moyen Âge.
Animals
Ecology
Forests and forestry
Human-animal relationships
Human ecology
Middle Ages
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Social conditions
Europe > Environmental conditions.
Europe > Social conditions > To 1492.
Europe > History > 476-1492.
Europe > Conditions environnementales.
Europe > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1492.
Europe > Histoire > 476-1492.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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