Landscapes And Environments Of The Middle Ages

Author : Michael Bintley,Kate Franklin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000918854

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Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages by Michael Bintley,Kate Franklin Pdf

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the landscapes of the Middle Ages within and beyond Europe, paying close attention to the relationship between ‘real’ and imagined landscapes and the ways that medieval people made and inhabited their world. Rather than studying 'nature' in the Middle Ages, the book instead examines the spaces that people constructed through soil, stone, and song; water and wasteland; plants and animals; and timber, textiles, and texts, which in turn made up the medieval world. Likewise, the text emphasises a definition of environment that focuses on ‘living with’, inviting readers to think about the more-than-human worlds that medieval people depended on, cared for, constructed, and damaged. Bringing together a wide range of primary source material, including evidence from texts, material culture, and visual arts, the book reflects the diversity of landscapes and human responses to them throughout the course of this period and considers the role that these medieval worlds have played in shaping the modern, both physically and culturally. Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages is an excellent resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in medieval studies and history, offering interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational insights into this period of immense change and innovation.

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270552

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Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England by Tom Williamson Pdf

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interested in the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.

Author : Derek Albert Pearsall,Elizabeth Salter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000855318

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Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World by Derek Albert Pearsall,Elizabeth Salter Pdf

Author : Ellen F. Arnold
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207521

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Negotiating the Landscape by Ellen F. Arnold Pdf

Negotiating the Landscape explores the question of how medieval religious identities were shaped and modified by interaction with the natural environment. Focusing on the Benedictine monastic community of Stavelot-Malmedy in the Ardennes, Ellen F. Arnold draws upon a rich archive of charters, property and tax records, correspondence, miracle collections, and saints' lives from the seventh to the mid-twelfth century to explore the contexts in which the monks' intense engagement with the natural world was generated and refined. Arnold argues for a broad cultural approach to medieval environmental history and a consideration of a medieval environmental imagination through which people perceived the nonhuman world and their own relation to it. Concerned to reassert medieval Christianity's vitality and variety, Arnold also seeks to oppose the historically influential view that the natural world was regarded in the premodern period as provided by God solely for human use and exploitation. The book argues that, rather than possessing a single unifying vision of nature, the monks drew on their ideas and experience to create and then manipulate a complex understanding of their environment. Viewing nature as both wild and domestic, they simultaneously acted out several roles, as stewards of the land and as economic agents exploiting natural resources. They saw the natural world of the Ardennes as a type of wilderness, a pastoral haven, and a source of human salvation, and actively incorporated these differing views of nature into their own attempts to build their community, understand and establish their religious identity, and relate to others who shared their landscape.

Author : N. J. Higham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062827376

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A Frontier Landscape by N. J. Higham Pdf

North west England has largely been neglected in studies of medieval landscapes in favour of the Midlands and East Anglia although it has much to offer. Described here as a `frontier landscape' encompassing the modern regions of Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester, the author discusses changes to the medieval landscape and why these occurred. He outlines and characterises the major period of expansion and economic boom that took place in the north west from 1086 to 1349 and asks why political and military matters seen to have had such an important role in landscape change. Issues of perceived marginality are also discussed as Higham looks in turn at the local population and their environment, land use and agrarian practices, woodland, forest and pasture, buildings, farms and estates, markets and fairs and the Church and the landscape. A great addition to the series.

Author : Sunhild Kleingärtner,Sébastien Rossignol,Timothy Newfield
Publisher : Pontifical Inst of Medieval studies
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0888448236

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Landscapes and Societies in Medieval Europe East of the Elbe by Sunhild Kleingärtner,Sébastien Rossignol,Timothy Newfield Pdf

Based on papers presented at the conference "Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe," held at York University, Toronto, Ont., March 26-27, 2010.

Author : Sébastien Rossignol,Sunhild Kleingärtner,Timothy Newfield,Donat Wehner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 1771103523

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Landscapes and Societies in Medieval Europe East of the Elbe by Sébastien Rossignol,Sunhild Kleingärtner,Timothy Newfield,Donat Wehner Pdf

Author : Derek Pearsall,Elizabeth Salter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 0608168092

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Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World by Derek Pearsall,Elizabeth Salter Pdf

Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002716160

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Strange Landscape by Christopher Frayling Pdf

The Middle Ages represented a flowering of spirituality and culture which, in Europe, has not been equalled since. This book examines some of the great writers and thinkers of the period and the events in which they took part.

Author : Leonard Cantor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000368666

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The English Medieval Landscape by Leonard Cantor Pdf

First published in 1982, The English Medieval Landscape was written to recreate and analyse the development of the major elements of the medieval landscape. Illustrated with maps and photographs, the book explores the nature of the English landscape between 1066 and 1485, from farms and chases to castles, monastic settlements, villages, roads, and more. The English Medieval Landscape will appeal to those with an interest in medieval history and British social history.

Author : John Howe,Michael Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 081302479X

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Inventing Medieval Landscapes by John Howe,Michael Wolfe Pdf

The eleven essays in this volume offer diverse approaches to very different landscapes. Yet they agree in viewing medieval western European landscape as artifact, as territiry constructed by medieval people on several interrelated levels. By helping to articulate how places came to be managed, created, and imagined, they offer their readers a much better apprecitaion of what might be called a "deep ecology" of the Middle Ages. --introd.

Author : José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo,Emmet Marron,Maria Crîngaci Țiplic
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789695427

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Ecclesiastical Landscapes in Medieval Europe: An Archaeological Perspective by José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo,Emmet Marron,Maria Crîngaci Țiplic Pdf

By presenting case studies from across Eastern and Western Medieval Europe, this volume aims to open up a Europe-wide debate on the variety of relations and contexts between ecclesiastical buildings and their surrounding landscapes between the 5th and 15th centuries AD.

Author : Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108926665

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Landscape in Middle English Romance by Andrew M. Richmond Pdf

Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance - and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : England
ISBN : UCSC:32106017187367

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Shaping Medieval Landscapes by Tom Williamson Pdf

This is a book which puts the environment back where it belongs - at the centre of the historical stage. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the English landscape, social and economic history, and the way that life was lived in the medieval countryside.

Author : Michael Aston,Carenza Lewis
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034258957

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The Medieval Landscape of Wessex by Michael Aston,Carenza Lewis Pdf

Wessex formed the heartland of Alfred the Great's kingdom, and continued to wield immense economic power long into the Middle Ages with many extensive and wealthy royal and ecclelesiastical estates. Contributors to this collection of 13 papers on the medieval landscape of Wessex include: B Eagles (The Archaeological evidence for settlement in the 5th to 7th centuries); D Hinton (The archaeology of 8th- to 11th-century Wessex); P Hase (The Church in the Wessex heartlands); D Hooke (The administrative and settlement framework of early medieval Wessex); M Costen (Settlement in Wessex in the 10th century); J Bond (Forests, chases, warrens and parks); J Hare (Agriculture and settlement in Wiltshire and Hampshire); C Lewis (The medieval settlment of Wiltshire); M Hughes (Towns and villages in medieval Hampshire); C Taylor (The regular village plan); M Aston (Medieval settlement in Somerset); S Rippon (Medieval wetland reclamation); R Croft (Protecting medieval settlement sites).