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An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature

An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature

Aberth, John

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415779456
ISBN13: 9780415779456
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 5 2012
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind's relationship with the environment shifted gradually over time from a predominantly adversarial approach to something more overtly collaborative, until a series of ecological crises in the late Middle Ages. With the advent of shattering events such as the Great Famine and the Black Death, considered efflorescences of the climate downturn known as the Little Ice Age that is comparable to our present global warming predicament, medieval people began to think of and relate to their natural environment in new and more nuanced ways. They now were made to be acutely aware of the consequences of human impacts upon the environment, anticipating the cyclical, new ecology approach of the modern world.

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