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A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY This
latest collection reflects the full range and vitality of the
current work on the Anglo-Norman period. It opens with the R. Allen
Brown Memorial Lecture for 2009, a wide-ranging reflection by the
distinguished French historian Dominique Barthelemy on the Peace of
God and the role of bishops in the long eleventh century. Economic
history is prominent in papers on the urban transformation in
England between 900 and 1100, on the roots of the royal forestin
England, and on trade links between England and Lower Normandy. A
close study of the Surrey manor of Mortlake brings in topography,
another aspect of which appears in an article on the representation
of outdoor space by Normanand Anglo-Norman chroniclers. Social
history is treated in papers dealing with the upbringing of the
children of the Angevin counts and with the developing ideas of
knighthood and chivalry in the works of Dudo of Saint-Quentin and
Benoit of Sainte-Maure. Finally, political ideas are examined
through careful reading of texts in papers on writing the rebellion
of Earl Waltheof in the twelfth century and on the use of royal
titles and prayers for the king inAnglo-Norman charters.
Contributors: Dominique Barthelemy, Kathryn Dutton, Leonie Hicks,
Richard Holt, Joanna Huntington, Laurence Jean-Marie, Dolly
Jorgensen, Max Lieberman, Stephen Marritt, Pamela Taylor
A groundbreaking study of how emotions motivate attempts to counter
species loss. This groundbreaking book brings together
environmental history and the history of emotions to examine the
motivations behind species conservation actions. In Recovering Lost
Species in the Modern Age, Dolly Jorgensen uses the environmental
histories of reintroduction, rewilding, and resurrection to view
the modern conservation paradigm of the recovery of nature as an
emotionally charged practice. Jorgensen argues that the recovery of
nature-identifying that something is lost and then going out to
find it and bring it back-is a nostalgic practice that looks to a
historical past and relies on the concept of belonging to justify
future-oriented action. The recovery impulse depends on emotional
responses to what is lost, particularly a longing for recovery that
manifests itself in such emotions as guilt, hope, fear, and grief.
Jorgensen explains why emotional frameworks matter deeply-both for
how people understand nature theoretically and how they interact
with it physically. The identification of what belongs (the lost
nature) and our longing (the emotional attachment to it) in the
present will affect how environmental restoration practices are
carried out in the future. A sustainable future will depend on
questioning how and why belonging and longing factor into the
choices we make about what to recover.
This book argues that the unique environments of the North have
been born of the relationship between humans and nature.
Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history,
the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including
those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic,
Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada, over a
time span ranging from CE 800 to 2000. Northscapes is bound
together by the intellectual project of investigating the North
both as an imagined and mythologized space and as an environment
shaped by human technology.
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