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082			_a304.2094 _bHOF [ Shelf 18 ]
100			_aHoffmann, Richard C.
245		3	_aAn environmental history of medieval Europe / _cby Richard C. Hoffmann.
264			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_axvii, 409 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _2 rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2 rdamedia
338			_avolume _2 rdacarrier
490			_aCambridge medieval textbooks
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aHuman ecology _z Europe _x History _y To 1500.
650			_aNature _x Effect of human beings on _z Europe _x History _y To 1500.
650			_aSocial ecology _z Europe _x History _y To 1500.
650			_aHISTORY / Europe / General. _2 bisacsh
651			_aEurope _x Environmental conditions _x History _y To 1500.
651			_aEurope _x Social conditions _y To 1492.
651			_aCivilization, Medieval.
856			_Cover image _u http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/00375/cover/9780521700375.jpg
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