The Keys to Bread and Wine : : Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia /

The Keys to Bread and Wine : : Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia / / Abigail Agresta.

How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religious difference? The Keys to Bread and Wine explores the answers to these questions in Valencia in the later Middle Ages. When Christians conquered the c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Agresta, Abigail,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.) :; 6 maps, 1 graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Names, Language, and Quotations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Works and Arts of Men: Irrigation and Environment
  • 2. Waters Dedicated to Some Purposes: New Infrastructure
  • 3. For the Beautification of the City: Christian Urban Reform
  • 4. Divine Mercy and Help: Natural Disaster and the Rise of Rogation Processions
  • 5. Seeking the Dew of His Grace: Droughts
  • 6. From Purification to Protection: Plague
  • 7. That for Which the King of Kings Sent the Flood?: Floods and Locusts
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Rogation Processions Held for Natural Disasters in Valencia, 1300–1519
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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