The medieval discovery of nature / / Steven A. Epstein [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Epstein Steven <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 304.2094/0902
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology - Europe - History - To 1500; Nature - Effect of human beings on - Europe - History - To 1500; Philosophy of nature - Europe - History - To 1500; Nature - Religious aspects; Civilization, Medieval
• Soggetto geografico: Europe History 476-1492
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The discovery of nature -- The invention of mules -- Like produces like -- The nature of property -- The nature of disaster -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan conception of natural history. These conflicting legacies shaped medieval European ideas about the natural order and what economic, moral and biological lessons it might teach. This book analyzes five themes found in medieval views of nature - grafting, breeding mules, original sin, property rights and disaster - to understand what some medieval people found in nature and what their assumptions and beliefs kept them from seeing.
• Titolo autorizzato: The medieval discovery of nature
• ISBN: 1-139-88933-8; 1-139-56480-3; 1-283-61068-X; 1-139-55126-4; 9786613923134; 1-139-20776-8; 1-139-55622-3; 1-139-55001-2; 1-139-55497-2; 1-139-55252-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465510303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II