Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy - Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree and what it can tell us about the medieval history of Italy. Zusammenfassung This innovative environmental history of the European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable perspectives on the human transition from Roman to medieval Italy. It integrates evidence from botanical and literary sources! individual charters and case studies of specific communities exposing changes in medieval land use. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Squatriti, Squatriti Paolo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2013
• EAN: 9781107034488
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03448-8
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, The environment, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Science / Environmental Science, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Human Geography, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Development and environmental geography