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Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy
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Artikel-Nr:
9781316633205
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.09.2016
Seiten:
252
Autor:
Paolo Squatriti
Gewicht:
371 g
Format:
229x152x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy.
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.