The Medieval Discovery Of Nature

Author : Steven Epstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107026452

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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.

Author : Professor Steven A Epstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 1139550012

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The Medieval Discovery of Nature by Professor Steven A Epstein Pdf

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."

Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429584237

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The Medieval World of Nature by Joyce E. Salisbury Pdf

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natural world of animals and plants, existed simply to serve medieval society. It discusses the medieval concept of animals as food, labour, and sport and addresses how the biblical charge of assuming dominion over animals and plants, was rooted in the medieval sensibility of control. The book also looks at the idea of plants and animals as not only pragmatic, but as allegories within the medieval world, utilizing animals to draw morality tales, which were viewed with as much importance as scientific information. This book provides a unique and interesting look at the everyday medieval world.

Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415779456

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An Environmental History of the Middle Ages by John Aberth Pdf

The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Exploring the entire medieval period from 500 to 1500, and ranging across the whole of Europe, from England and Spain to the Baltic and Eastern Europe, John Aberth focuses his study on three key areas: the natural elements of air, water, and earth; the forest; and wild and domestic animals. Through this multi-faceted lens, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages sheds fascinating new light on the medieval environmental mindset. It will be essential reading for students, scholars and all those interested in the Middle Ages

Author : A. C. Crombie
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826431622

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Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought by A. C. Crombie Pdf

The author sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientific thought. Underlying that development have been specific commitments to conceptions of nature and of science and its intellectual and moral assumptions, accompanied by a recurrent critique; their diversification has generated a series of different styles of scientific thinking and of making theoretical and practical decisions which the work describes.

Author : William Eamon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691214610

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Science and the Secrets of Nature by William Eamon Pdf

By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric "secrets of nature." In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines.

Author : State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Conference
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B4351689

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Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages by State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Conference Pdf

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813217383

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The Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 52) by Edward Grant Pdf

In this volume, distinguished scholar Edward Grant identifies the vital elements that contributed to the creation of a widespread interest in natural philosophy, which has been characterized as the "Great Mother of the Sciences."

Author : Richard Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317861508

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The Medieval Natural World by Richard Jones Pdf

How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded? This new Seminar Study is designed to familiarise students of medieval history with the ways in which medieval people interpreted the world around them – how they rationalised their observations, and why they developed the models for understanding that they did. Most importantly, it shows how ideas changed over the medieval period, and why. With extensive primary source material, this book builds up a picture using medieval encyclopedias, prose literature and poetry, records of estate management, agricultural treatises, scientific works, annals and chronicles, as well as the evidence from art, architecture, archaeology and the landscape itself. An excellent introduction for undergraduate students of Medieval history, or for anyone with an interest in the medieval natural world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106005890592

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Physiologus by Anonim Pdf

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, "Physiologus "contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching.a Accompanied by an introduction that explains the origins, history, and literary value of this curious text, this volume also reproduces twenty woodcuts from the 1587 version. Originally composed in the fourth century in Greek, and translated into dozens of versions through the centuries, "Physiologus "will delight readers with its ancient tales of ant-lions, centaurs, and hedgehogsOCoand their allegorical significance. OC An elegant little book . . . still diverting to look at today. . . . The woodcuts reproduced from the 1587 Rome edition are alone worth the price of the book.OCOOCoRaymond A. Sokolov, "New York Times Book Review""

Author : Ellen F. Arnold
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : JOYCE E. SALISBURY
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367187922

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The Medieval World of Nature by JOYCE E. SALISBURY Pdf

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natural world of animals and plants, existed simply to serve medieval society. It discusses the medieval concept of animals as food, labour, and sport and addresses how the biblical charge of assuming dominion over animals and plants, was rooted in the medieval sensibility of control. The book also looks at the idea of plants and animals as not only pragmatic, but as allegories within the medieval world, utilizing animals to draw morality tales, which were viewed with as much importance as scientific information. This book provides a unique and interesting look at the everyday medieval world.

Author : Aldo D. Scaglione
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Love in literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nature and Love in the Late Middle Ages by Aldo D. Scaglione Pdf

'Chiefly an essay in the cultural context of the Decameron.'

Author : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Animals (Philosophy)
ISBN : 2503549217

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The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference Pdf

The essays in this collection were first delivered as presentations at the Sixteenth Annual ACMRS Conference on 'Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance' in February, 2010, at Arizona State University. They reflect the current state of the critical discussion regarding the 'history of the human'.

Author : Hugh White
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198187300

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Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition by Hugh White Pdf

'Nature' is a highly important term in the ethical discourse of the Middle Ages and, as such, a leading concept in medieval literature. This book examines the moral status of the natural in writings by Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and others, showinghow-particularly in the erotic sphere-the influences of nature are not always conceived as wholly benign. Though medieval thinkers often affirm an association of nature with reason, and therefore with the good, there is also an acknowledgement that the animal, the pre-rational, the instinctivewithin human beings may be validly considered natural. In fact, human beings may be thought to be urged almost ineluctably by the force of nature within them towards behaviour hostile to reason and the right.