ABSTRACT
How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded?
This new Seminar Study is designed to familiarise students of medieval history with the ways in which medieval people interpreted the world around them – how they rationalised their observations, and why they developed the models for understanding that they did. Most importantly, it shows how ideas changed over the medieval period, and why. With extensive primary source material, this book builds up a picture using medieval encyclopedias, prose literature and poetry, records of estate management, agricultural treatises, scientific works, annals and chronicles, as well as the evidence from art, architecture, archaeology and the landscape itself.
An excellent introduction for undergraduate students of Medieval history, or for anyone with an interest in the medieval natural world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|114 pages
Analysis
chapter |9 pages
The Nature of Things
chapter |13 pages
Universal Models
chapter |12 pages
On the Heavens
chapter 4|11 pages
Meteorology
chapter 5|14 pages
Image of the World
chapter 6|11 pages
Man and Nature
chapter 7|12 pages
On Animals
chapter 8|11 pages
On Plants
chapter 9|10 pages
On Minerals
chapter 10|9 pages
The Book of Nature
part 2|32 pages
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