An Environmental History of Medieval Europe by Richard Hoffmann
How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history examines medieval relationships with the natural world from the perspective of social ecology, viewing human society as a hybrid of the cultural and the natural. Richard Hoffmann's interdisciplinary approach sheds important light on such central topics in medieval history as the decline of Rome, religious doctrine, urbanization and technology, as well as key environmental themes, among them energy use, sustainability, disease and climate change. Revealing the role of natural forces in events previously seen as purely human, the book explores issues including the treatment of animals, the 'tragedy of the commons', agricultural clearances and agrarian economies. By introducing medieval history in the context of social ecology, it brings the natural world into historiography as an agent and object of history itself.-
The Hundred Years War
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Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages
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The Wars of the Roses
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Magic in the Middle Ages
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Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 10001300
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Medieval Wales
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The Medieval Spains
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The Norman Kingdom of Sicily
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The Crusades, c.1071c.1291
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Germany in the High Middle Ages
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England in the Thirteenth Century
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The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century
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Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215 c.1515
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Women in Early Medieval Europe, 4001100
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The Sound Steps to Reading
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Medieval Ireland
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Roger II of Sicily
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Political Thought in Europe, 12501450
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England in the Reign of Edward III
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Medieval Russia, 9801584
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The Byzantine Economy
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Medieval Chivalry
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A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 12001550
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The Making of Polities
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The Papacy, 10731198
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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376568
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Medieval Scotland
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The Carolingian World
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The Two Worlds of Raymond F. Jones
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Medieval Heresies
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Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 5001250
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Central Europe in the High Middle Ages
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The Waldensian Dissent
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The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom
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Medieval Economic Thought
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The Struggle for Power in Medieval Italy
'Contains the wisdom, and embodies the experience, gained from a career spent presenting this most interdisciplinary of subjects to classes of humanities students shy of science and nervous of numbersThe result is an accessible, readable and thought-provoking book with which any historian, environmental or otherwise, ought to be able to engage.' Bruce M. S. Campbell, The English Historical Review
'… [Richard Hoffman] has provided a rich overview of medieval daily life and thought with regard to the natural environment. He does not only focus on the interaction between nature and humans, but also contextualizes his findings in a larger framework of economic and social history, and the histories of law and mentalities. The book will serve as a readable introduction for students and scholars of medieval history, as well as enable specialists in environmental history to build on his work … an essential book and a work to use as a reference for all medievalists and environmental historians.' Christian Rohr, Speculum
'… [Richard Hoffman] has provided a rich overview of medieval daily life and thought with regard to the natural environment. He does not only focus on the interaction between nature and humans, but also contextualizes his findings in a larger framework of economic and social history, and the histories of law and mentalities. The book will serve as a readable introduction for students and scholars of medieval history, as well as enable specialists in environmental history to build on his work … an essential book and a work to use as a reference for all medievalists and environmental historians.' Christian Rohr, Speculum
Richard Hoffmann is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at the Department of History, York University, Canada. As a pioneer in the environmental history of pre-industrial Europe, he is widely known for his contributions to medieval studies, environmental studies and historic fisheries.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521700375 |
| ISBN 10 | 052170037X |
| Title | An Environmental History of Medieval Europe |
| Author | Richard Hoffmann |
| Series | Cambridge Medieval Textbooks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2014-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 427 |
| Prizes | Winner of Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists 2015 |
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