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Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West (Hardcover)
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Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West (Hardcover)
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a
lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy
From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of
agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner
examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early
medieval ecologies and transformed the way that people thought
about the world around them. In this world, even the smallest
things could have far-reaching consequences. Kreiner tracks the
interlocking relationships between pigs and humans by drawing on
textual and visual evidence, bioarchaeology and settlement
archaeology, and mammal biology. She shows how early medieval
communities bent their own lives in order to accommodate these
tricky animals-and how in the process they reconfigured their
agrarian regimes, their fiscal policies, and their very identities.
In the end, even the pig's own identity was transformed: by the
close of the early Middle Ages, it had become a riveting metaphor
for Christianity itself.
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