Ellen F Arnold

Negotiating the Landscape

Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ellen F. Arnold teaches history at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244632
• ISBN-10: 081224463X
• Artikelnr.: 35557312

Autorenporträt

Ellen F. Arnold teaches history at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Approaching the Medieval Landscape 1
Chapter 1. Religious Roots: Foundation in the ''Forest Wilderness'' 31
Chapter 2. Controlling the Domesticated Landscape: Value, Ownership, and
Religious Interpretations 62
Chapter 3. Fighting over Forests: Establishing Social and Religious
Authority 110
Chapter 4. Creating Conflict: Forests in the Monastic Imagination 145
Chapter 5. The Religious Landscape and Monastic Identity 173
Epilogue: The Passio Agilolfi Revisited 213
Timeline 219
Handlist of Sources 223
Notes 227
Bibliography 271
Index 289
Acknowledgments 299