Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World
Author: Derek Albert Pearsall
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Dieter Mehl
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1986-12-18
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521318884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.
Women Medievalists and the Academy
Author: Jane Chance
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1124
ISBN-13: 9780299207502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Pioneering. . . . An important and timely collection that profiles the lives and professional careers of women medievalists in the last centuries."--Maureen Mazzaoui, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seasons in the Literatures of the Medieval North
Author: P. S. Langeslag
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1843844257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh examination of how the seasons are depicted in medieval literature.
The Medieval World of Nature
Author: Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0429584237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natural world of animals and plants, existed simply to serve medieval society. It discusses the medieval concept of animals as food, labour, and sport and addresses how the biblical charge of assuming dominion over animals and plants, was rooted in the medieval sensibility of control. The book also looks at the idea of plants and animals as not only pragmatic, but as allegories within the medieval world, utilizing animals to draw morality tales, which were viewed with as much importance as scientific information. This book provides a unique and interesting look at the everyday medieval world.
Landscape in Middle English Romance
Author: Andrew M. Richmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1108913091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.
Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages
Author: Michael Bintley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1000918858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive introduction to the landscapes of the Middle Ages within and beyond Europe, paying close attention to the relationship between ‘real’ and imagined landscapes and the ways that medieval people made and inhabited their world. Rather than studying 'nature' in the Middle Ages, the book instead examines the spaces that people constructed through soil, stone, and song; water and wasteland; plants and animals; and timber, textiles, and texts, which in turn made up the medieval world. Likewise, the text emphasises a definition of environment that focuses on ‘living with’, inviting readers to think about the more-than-human worlds that medieval people depended on, cared for, constructed, and damaged. Bringing together a wide range of primary source material, including evidence from texts, material culture, and visual arts, the book reflects the diversity of landscapes and human responses to them throughout the course of this period and considers the role that these medieval worlds have played in shaping the modern, both physically and culturally. Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages is an excellent resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in medieval studies and history, offering interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational insights into this period of immense change and innovation.
Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World
Author: Derek Pearsall
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780608168098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
Author: N. J. Higham
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1843835827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarship has proved this simplistic picture wanting, it has also raised many questions about the nature of landscape development at the time, the changing nature of systems of land management, and strategies for settlement. The papers here seek to shed new light on these complex issues. Taking a variety of different approaches, and with topics ranging from the impact of coppicing to medieval field systems, from the representation of the landscape in manuscripts to cereal production and the type of bread the population preferred, they offer striking new approaches to the central issues of landscape change across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England, a period surely foundational to the rural landscape of today. NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester; MARTIN J. RYAN lectures in Medieval History at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Nicholas J. Higham, Christopher Grocock, Stephen Rippon, Stuart Brookes, Carenza Lewis, Susan Oosthuizen, Tom Williamson, Catherine Karkov, David Hill, Debby Banham, Richard Hoggett, Peter Murphy.
The Dartmoor Reaves
Author: Andrew Fleming
Publisher: Windgather Press
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1911188720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves is a classic story of archaeological fieldwork and discovery, and a winner of the Archaeological Book Award. This major new edition adds both color illustrations and two substantial new chapters to the original groundbreaking text, which revolutionized our understanding of Britain's prehistoric landscapes. Dartmoor has long been known for the richness of its prehistoric heritage; stone circles, hut circles, massive burial cairns, and stone rows all pepper the landscape. In the 1970s a new dimension was added, with the recognition that the long-ignored reaves (ruined walls) are also prehistoric; Dartmoor now posed all sorts of questions about the nature of Bronze Age society. Andrew Fleming describes the critical moment when his own fieldwork picked up the pattern of the reaves, and he realized their true identity. His new chapters place Dartmoor's large-scale, planned, prehistoric landscapes in the context of other 'co-axial' field systems that have since been found elsewhere, and also discuss their meaning, in the light of the latest research on the Bronze Age.
