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Weeds and the Carolingians
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Artikel-Nr:
9781316512869
Veröffentl:
2022
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Erscheinungsdatum:
25.05.2022
Seiten:
238
Autor:
Paolo Squatriti
Gewicht:
503 g
Format:
235x157x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Paolo Squatriti is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His previous publications include Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy (Cambridge, 1998) and Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy (Cambridge, 2013). The latter won a prize from the American Association for Italian Studies.
"For the first time, in this book weeds emerge as protagonists in early medieval European history, driving human farming strategies and coloring people's imagination. Early medieval Europeans' effort to create agroecosystems that satisfied their needs and cosmologies that confirmed Christian accounts of vegetable creation both had to come to terms with unruly plants. Using diverse kinds of texts, fresh archaeobotanical data, and even mosaics, this interdisciplinary study reveals how early medieval Europeans interacted with their environments"--
1. Weeds, nature, and empire; 2. Weeds on the ground; 3. The time of weeds; 4. The worst of weeds; 5. The botany of paradise in Carolingian Rome; 6. The uses of weeds; 7. The politics of weeding in the Carolingian Empire; Epilogue.