By Richard Jones
June 2013
Pearson Education
Distributed by the Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781408248898
175 Pages
$42.50 Paper original
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.
Contents:
Abbreviations
Chronology
Who’s Who
PART 1: ANALYSIS
1. The Nature of Things
2. Universal Models
3. On the Heavens
4. Meteorology
5. Image of the World
6. Man and Nature
7. On Animals
8. On Plants
9. On Minerals
10. The Book of Nature
PART 2: DOCUMENTS
FURTHER READING
REFERENCES
INDEX
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