An environmental history of the Middle Ages : the crucible of nature [E-Book] / John Aberth
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Personal Name(s): | Aberth, John, author |
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London ;
Routledge,
2013
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Physical Description: |
xvi, 326 pages, illustrations |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9780415779463 9780203107690 9780415779456 |
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- 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.