04392oam 2200781I 450 991081078640332120240131152809.01-136-26302-01-283-91932-X0-203-10769-11-136-26303-910.4324/9780203107690 (CKB)2670000000315251(EBL)1104749(OCoLC)823389958(SSID)ssj0000831351(PQKBManifestationID)12407934(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000831351(PQKBWorkID)10873782(PQKB)10964633(MiAaPQ)EBC1104749(Au-PeEL)EBL1104749(CaPaEBR)ebr10641649(CaONFJC)MIL423182(OCoLC)823170079(FINmELB)ELB133840(EXLCZ)99267000000031525120180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn environmental history of the Middle Ages the crucible of nature /John AberthLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (345 p.)"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.0-415-77946-4 0-415-77945-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-307) and index.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.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 climaHuman ecologyEuropeHistoryTo 1500NatureEffect of human beings onEuropeHistoryTo 1500Four elements (Philosophy)Social aspectsEuropeHistoryTo 1500Forests and forestryEuropeHistoryTo 1500AnimalsEuropeHistoryTo 1500Human-animal relationshipsEuropeHistoryTo 1500Middle AgesEuropeEnvironmental conditionsEuropeSocial conditionsTo 1492EuropeHistory476-1492Human ecologyHistoryNatureEffect of human beings onHistoryFour elements (Philosophy)Social aspectsHistoryForests and forestryHistoryAnimalsHistoryHuman-animal relationshipsHistoryMiddle Ages.304.2094/0902Aberth John1963-,882776MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810786403321An environmental history of the Middle Ages4018691UNINA