Inventing medieval landscapes : senses of place in Western Europe
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Inventing medieval landscapes : senses of place in Western Europe
University Press of Florida, c2002
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Far from the forest primeval of popular imagination, the historians and literary scholars in this book describe a Western European landscape just as consciously constructed by its inhabitants as any modern landscape - physically, conceptually, and spiritually. All appearing for the first time in print, their essays provide a wealth of detail on this ""deep ecology"" of the Middle Ages and a better understanding of the creativity and skill of our cultural ancestors.
Table of Contents
Introduction, by John Howe and Michael Wolfe Part One: Managed Landscapes 1. The Medieval Countryside of England: Botany and Archaeology, by Oliver Rackham 2. Veneurs s'en vont en Paradis: Medieval Hunting and the "Natural" Landscape, by John Cummins 3. New Habitats for the Rabbit in Northern Europe, 1300-1600, by Petra J.E.M. van Dam 4. Politics, Perception, and the Meaning of Landscape in Late Medieval Venice: Marco Cornaro's 1442 Inspection of Firewood Supplies, by Karl Appuhn Part Two: Created Landscapes 5. The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England: Inherited, Invented, Imagined, by Nicholas Howe 6. Tribal Landscapes of Islamic Spain: History and Archaeology, by Thomas Glick 7. From Alien Terrain to the Abode of Islam: Landscapes in the Conquest of al-Andalus, by Janina Safran 8. Private Pleasures: Painted Gardens on the Manuscript Page, by Bridget Ann Henisch Part Three: Imagined Landscapes 9. Landscape, Gender, and Ethnogenesis in Pre-Norman Invasion Ireland, by Lisa Bitel 10. Narrative Time and Literary Landscapes in Middle English Poetry, by Laura L. Howes 11. Creating Symbolic Landscapes: Medieval Development of Sacred Space, by John Howe
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