"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references(p. [280]-307) and index.
Contents:
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.
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