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An Environmental History of Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New title)
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An Environmental History of Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New title)
Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
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How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think
about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces
affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history
examines medieval relationships with the natural world from the
perspective of social ecology, viewing human society as a hybrid of
the cultural and the natural. Richard Hoffmann's interdisciplinary
approach sheds important light on such central topics in medieval
history as the decline of Rome, religious doctrine, urbanization
and technology, as well as key environmental themes, among them
energy use, sustainability, disease and climate change. Revealing
the role of natural forces in events previously seen as purely
human, the book explores issues including the treatment of animals,
the 'tragedy of the commons', agricultural clearances and agrarian
economies. By introducing medieval history in the context of social
ecology, it brings the natural world into historiography as an
agent and object of history itself.
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