Paolo Squatriti

Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781316633205
• ISBN-10: 1316633209
• Artikelnr.: 47548850

Autorenporträt

Paolo Squatriti is Associate Professor of History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He specialises in the study of the pre-industrial environment and has published on ecological and landscape change in the Dark Ages.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: trees, woods, and chestnuts in early medieval Italy
1. A natural history of the chestnut
2. The triumph of a tree
3. The poetics of the chestnut in the early Middle Ages
4. Chestnuts in medieval Campania
5. Chestnuts in the Po valley
Conclusion: Giovanni Pascoli and the old chestnut
Bibliography.