An environmental history of the Middle Ages : the crucible of nature / by John Aberth.

• Part I. Air, Water, Earth -- In the Beginning... -- Worshipping the Elements -- The Medieval Warm Period -- Harnessing the Elements -- Collaboration, or Exploitation? -- The Little Ice Age -- Earth, Wind, and Death -- Environmental Causes of the Plague -- Man-Made Pollution of the Environment -- The Poison Thesis -- Weather Magic -- Part II. Forest -- Pre-Christian Tree Cults -- Surviving Wildwood at the Start of the Middle Ages -- The Early Medieval Woodland -- An Era of Great Clearances? -- A Brief History of the Royal Forest of England -- The Evidence of the Eyre Rolls -- Managing the King's Woods -- Disafforestment and the Rise of Private Woodland -- The Management of Woods Elsewhere -- Shaping the Idea of Wilderness -- A Renaissance in Regrowth of the Forest? -- Part III. Beast -- Animals on the Farm : The Early Middle Ages -- Animals on the Farm : The High and Late Middle Ages -- Animals as Pets and Companions -- Animals of the Hunt : Origins of Medieval Hunting -- Animals of the Hunt : Deer and Other Game -- Animals of the Hunt : Romance vs. Reality -- Animals of the Hunt : Falconry and Fishing -- Animals and Disease -- Animals on Trial -- Animals in the Bed -- Animals and Magic -- Afterword.

Ämnesord

Medeltiden  (sao)

Skogsbruk  -- historia (sao)

Human ecology  -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Nature  -- Effect of human beings on -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Four elements (Philosophy)  -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Forests and forestry  -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Animals  -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Human-animal relationships  -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Humanekologi  -- historia (sao)

Människans påverkan på naturen  -- historia (sao)

De fyra elementen  -- sociala aspekter -- historia (sao)

Djur och människor  -- historia (sao)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Europe  -- History -- 476-1492. (LCSH)

Europe  -- Environmental conditions. (LCSH)

Europe  -- Social conditions -- To 1492. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Uhb Humanekologi

Klassifikation

GF540 (LCC)

304.2094/0902 (DDC)

Uhb (kssb/8)