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An environmental history of medieval Europe /
"How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history examines medieval relationships with the natural world from the perspective of social ecology, view...
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New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge medieval textbooks
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| Online Access: | http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/00375/cover/9780521700375.jpg |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Thinking about medieval Europeans in their natural world
- Long no wilderness
- Intersecting instabilities : culture and nature at medieval beginnings (ca.400-900)
- Humankind and God's creation in medieval minds
- Medieval land use and the formation of traditional European landscapes
- Medieval use, management, and sustainability of local ecosystems 1 : primary biological production sectors
- Medieval use, management, and sustainability of local ecosystems 2 : interactions with the non-living environment
- "This belongs to me..."
- Suffering the uncomprehended : disease as a natural agent
- An inconstant planet, seen and unseen, under foot and overhead
- A slow end of medieval environmental relations
- Afterword.