An Environmental History of the Middle Ages (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is the first survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. With the advent of environmental crises such as the Little Ice Age and the Black Death, comparable to our present crisis of Global Warming, during the late Middle Ages, medieval people began to think of and relate to their natural environment in new ways.

Encompassing the entire medieval period from 500 to 1500 across the whole of Europe, from England and Spain across to the Baltic and Eastern Europe, and focusing on the key areas of the natural elements of air, water, and earth; on the forest; and on wild and domestic "beasts," or animals, John Aberth sheds new light on the medieval environmental mindset.

This book will be essential reading for all those interested in the Middle Ages.