An environmental history of the Middle Ages : the crucible of nature / / John Aberth.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Aberth, John, 1963-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvi, 326 p. :; ill.
• Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--t.p. verso.

Table of Contents

• Part I. Air, Water, Earth
• In the Beginning ...
• Worshipping the Elements
• The Medieval Warm Period
• Harnessing the Elements
• Collaboration, or Exploitation?
• The Little Ice Age
• Earth, Wind, and Death
• Environmental Causes of the Plague
• Man-Made Pollution of the Environment
• The Poison Thesis
• Weather Magic
• Part II. Forest
• Pre-Christian Tree Cults
• Surviving Wildwood at the Start of the Middle Ages
• The Early Medieval Woodland
• An Era of Great Clearances?
• A Brief History of the Royal Forest of England
• The Evidence of the Eyre Rolls
• Managing the King's Woods
• Disafforestment and the Rise of Private Woodland
• The Management of Woods Elsewhere
• Shaping the Idea of Wilderness
• A Renaissance in Regrowth of the Forest?
• Part III. Beast
• Animals on the Farm : The Early Middle Ages
• Animals on the Farm : The High and Late Middle Ages
• Animals as Pets and Companions
• Animals of the Hunt : Origins of Medieval Hunting
• Animals of the Hunt : Deer and Other Game
• Animals of the Hunt : Romance vs. Reality
• Animals of the Hunt : Falconry and Fishing
• Animals and Disease
• Animals on Trial
• Animals in the Bed
• Animals and Magic
• Afterword.