Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw
the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and
violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight
original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind's
place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to
the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward
nature as simple or univocal. Gathering together medical texts,
herbals, and how-to books, as well as scientific, religious,
philosophical, and poetic works dating from antiquity to the dawn
of the Enlightenment, the anthology explores both mainstream and
unconventional thinking about the natural world. Its seven parts
focus on philosophy and science; plants; animals; weather and
climate; ways of inhabiting the land; gardens and gardening; and
European encounters with the wider world. Each section and each of
the book's selections is prefaced with a helpful introduction by
volume editor Rebecca Bushnell that weaves connections among these
compelling pieces of the past. The early writers collected here
wrote with extraordinary openness about ways of coexisting with the
nonhuman forces that shaped them, Bushnell demonstrates, even as
they sought to control and exploit their environment. Taken as a
whole, The Marvels of the World reveals how many of these early
writers cared as much about the natural world as we do today.
General
| Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture |
| Release date: |
March 2021 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Editors: |
Rebecca Bushnell
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
384 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-5284-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8122-5284-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780812252842 |
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