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10%OFFBarbara A. Hanawalt (Ed.) - Engaging With Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - 9780268030834 - V9780268030834
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Engaging With Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Description for Engaging With Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Paperback. A collection of essays which provide insights into such topics as concepts of animal/human relationships; environmental and ecological history; medieval hunting; early modern collections of natural objects; the relationship of religion and nature; and the rise of science. Editor(s): Hanawalt, Barbara A.; Kiser, Lisa J. Num Pages: 248 pages, 27 illustrated halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.

Historians and cultural critics face special challenges when treating the nonhuman natural world in the medieval and early modern periods. Their most daunting problem is that in both the visual and written records of the time, nature seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. In the broadest sense, nature was everywhere, for it was vital to human survival. Agriculture, animal husbandry, medicine, and the patterns of human settlement all have their basis in natural settings. Humans also marked personal, community, and seasonal events by natural occurrences and built their cultural explanations around the workings of nature, which formed the unspoken ... Read more

Yet in spite of the ubiquity of nature’s continual presence in the physical surroundings and the artistic and literary cultures of these periods, overt discussion of nature is often hard to find. Until the sixteenth century, responses to nature were quite often recorded only in the course of investigating other subjects. In a very real sense, nature went without saying.

As a result, modern scholars analyzing the concept of nature in the history of medieval and early modern Europe must often work in deeply interdisciplinary ways. This challenge is deftly handled by the contributors to Engaging with Nature, whose essays provide insights into such topics as concepts of animal/human relationships; environmental and ecological history; medieval hunting; early modern collections of natural objects; the relationship of religion and nature; the rise of science; and the artistic representations of exotic plants and animals produced by Europeans encountering the New World.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268030834
SKU
V9780268030834
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About Barbara A. Hanawalt (Ed.)
Barbara A. Hanawalt is King George III Professor of British History at Ohio State University.

Reviews for Engaging With Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
“As scholars of medieval and early modern Europe increasingly embrace environmental perspectives and animal studies, Engaging with Nature will be recognized as a landmark collection in the field. Taken together, the essays in this volume provide a synthetic overview of critical developments in the many disciplines that are now incorporating the approaches of natural and environmental studies. Each essay represents ... Read more

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