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Engaging With Nature - Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Engaging With Nature - Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Historians and cultural critics face special challenges when
treating the nonhuman natural world in the medieval and early
modern periods. Their most daunting problem is that in both the
visual and written records of the time, nature seems to be both
everywhere and nowhere. In the broadest sense, nature was
everywhere, for it was vital to human survival. Agriculture, animal
husbandry, medicine, and the patterns of human settlement all have
their basis in natural settings. Humans also marked personal,
community, and seasonal events by natural occurrences and built
their cultural explanations around the workings of nature, which
formed the unspoken backdrop for every historical event and
document of the time. Yet in spite of the ubiquity of nature's
continual presence in the physical surroundings and the artistic
and literary cultures of these periods, overt discussion of nature
is often hard to find. Until the sixteenth century, responses to
nature were quite often recorded only in the course of
investigating other subjects. In a very real sense, nature went
without saying. As a result, modern scholars analyzing the concept
of nature in the history of medieval and early modern Europe must
often work in deeply interdisciplinary ways. This challenge is
deftly handled by the contributors to Engaging with Nature, whose
essays provide insights into such topics as concepts of
animal/human relationships; environmental and ecological history;
medieval hunting; early modern collections of natural objects; the
relationship of religion and nature; the rise of science; and the
artistic representations of exotic plants and animals produced by
Europeans encountering the New World.
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