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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785706803321

Autore

Aberth John <1963-, >

Titolo

An environmental history of the Middle Ages : the crucible of nature / / John Aberth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-26302-0

1-283-91932-X

0-203-10769-1

1-136-26303-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

304.2094/0902

Soggetti

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

Europe Environmental conditions

Europe Social conditions To 1492

Europe History 476-1492

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



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Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200056459

Autore

d'Alessandro, Lucio

Titolo

Decisione del legislatore e interpretazione del giudice : genealogia di un'utopia permanente / Lucio d'Alessandro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, stampa 2009

ISBN

9788896055380

Descrizione fisica

50 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Lezioni magistrali / Università degli studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia