TY - BOOK ID - 67237771 TI - Reading the natural world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : perceptions of the environment and ecology AU - Willard, Thomas AU - Brepols PY - 2020 VL - 46 SN - 9782503590448 9782503590455 2503590454 2503590446 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Human ecology KW - Human beings KW - Human ecology in literature KW - History KW - Effect of environment on KW - E-books KW - History of civilization KW - anno 500-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Homo sapiens KW - Human race KW - Humanity (Human beings) KW - Humankind KW - Humans KW - Man KW - Mankind KW - People KW - Hominids KW - Persons KW - Ecology KW - Environment, Human KW - Human environment KW - Ecological engineering KW - Human geography KW - Nature KW - Social aspects KW - Effect of human beings on KW - 930.85 KW - 930.85 <44> KW - 574 KW - 504 KW - 504 Environment. Environmental science KW - Environment. Environmental science KW - 574 General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography KW - General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography KW - 930.85 <44> Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Frankrijk KW - Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Frankrijk KW - 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis KW - Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis KW - Human ecology - Europe - History - To 1500 KW - Human beings - Effect of environment on - History - To 1500 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67237771 AB - The environment — together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world — has become a major focus of pre-modern studies. The thirteen contributions in this volume discuss topics across the millennium in Europe from the late 600s to the early 1600s. They introduce applications to older texts, art works, and ideas made possible by relatively new fields of discourse such as animal studies, ecotheology, and Material Engagement Theory. From studies of medieval land charters and epics to the canticles sung in churches, the encyclopedic natural histories compiled for the learned, the hunting parks described and illustrated for the aristocracy, chronicles from the New World, classical paintings from the Old World, and the plays of Shakespeare, the authors engage with the human responses to nature in times when it touched their lives more intimately than it does for people today, even though this contact raised concerns that are still very much alive today. ER -