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100 1 Aberth, John,|d1963-
245 13 An environmental history of the Middle Ages :|bthe
crucible of nature /|cby John Aberth.
260 London ;|aNew York :|bRoutledge,|c2013.
300 326 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm.
505 0 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.
650 0 Human ecology|zEurope|xHistory|yTo 1500.
650 0 Nature|xEffect of human beings on|zEurope|xHistory|yTo
1500.
650 0 Four elements (Philosophy)|xSocial aspects|zEurope
|xHistory|yTo 1500.
650 0 Forests and forestry|zEurope|xHistory|yTo 1500.
650 0 Animals|zEurope|xHistory|yTo 1500.
650 0 Human-animal relationships|zEurope|xHistory|yTo 1500.
650 0 Middle Ages.
651 0 Europe|xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 Europe|xSocial conditions|yTo 1492.
651 0 Europe|xHistory|y476-1492.
