Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100 (Studies in Environment and History) - Hardcover

Arnold, Ellen F.

 
9781009299398: Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100 (Studies in Environment and History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1009299395 ISBN 13: 9781009299398
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex world. Using religious narrative sources to evaluate the environmental mentalities of medieval communities, Ellen F. Arnold explores the cultural meanings applied to rivers over a broad span of time, ca. 300-1100 CE. Hagiographical material, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historiographical works are explored to examine the medieval environmental imaginations about rivers, and how storytelling and memory are connected to lived experiences in riverscapes. She argues that rivers provided unique opportunities for medieval communities to understand and respond to ecological and socio-cultural transformations, and to connect their ideas about the shared religious past to hopes about the future.

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About the Author

Ellen F. Arnold is Associate Professor of Pre-modern Environmental History at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is the author of Negotiating the Landscape and co-editor of the journal Water History.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009299395
ISBN 13 
9781009299398
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
328

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