TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffmann, Richard C.
TI  - An environmental history of medieval Europe
T2  - Cambridge medieval textbooks
SN  - 9780521700375 (paperback)
U1  - 304.2094 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge ; , New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  -  Europe
KW  -  History
KW  -  To 1500
KW  - Nature
KW  -  Effect of human beings on
KW  - Social ecology
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / General.
KW  -  bisacsh
KW  - Europe
KW  -  Environmental conditions
KW  -  Social conditions
KW  -  To 1492
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - "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, viewing human society as a hybrid of the cultural and the natural. Richard Hoffmann's interdisciplinary approach sheds important light on such central topics in medieval history as the decline of Rome, religious doctrine, urbanization and technology, as well as key environmental themes, among them energy use, sustainability, disease and climate change. Revealing the role of natural forces in events previously seen as purely human, the book explores issues including the treatment of animals, the 'tragedy of the commons,' agricultural clearances and agrarian economies. By introducing medieval history in the context of social ecology, it brings the natural world into historiography as an agent and object of history itself"--
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