The Medieval World of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval World of Nature write by Joyce E. Salisbury. This book was released on 2019-06-26. The Medieval World of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Medieval Natural World
The Medieval Natural World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Natural World write by Richard Jones. This book was released on 2013-11-14. The Medieval Natural World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Environmental History of the Middle Ages write by John Aberth. This book was released on 2013. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Medieval Discovery of Nature
The Medieval Discovery of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Discovery of Nature write by Steven Epstein. This book was released on 2012-09-28. The Medieval Discovery of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Wisdom of Nature
The Wisdom of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wisdom of Nature write by Werner Telesko. This book was released on 2001. The Wisdom of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beautifully illustrated with pages from seminal medieval illuminated manuscripts, this engaging book explores cures & remedies from the Middle Ages.
