The Medieval Pig (Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages, 9) 1837651426, 9781837651429

The Medieval Pig (Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages, 9) 1837651426, 9781837651429

Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Mid

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Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages: Comparative Contexts (Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages, 8) 1843846640, 9781843846642

Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinki

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Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art (The Middle Ages Series) 0812246977, 9780812246971

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in Europea

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Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes (The Middle Ages Series) [1 ed.] 081224463X, 9780812244632

Negotiating the Landscape explores the question of how medieval religious identities were shaped and modified by interac

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Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Perceptions of the Environment and Ecology (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and ... in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 46) 9782503590448, 2503590446

The environment--together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world--has become a major focus of

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Dreams, Nature, and Practices as Signs of the Future in the Middle Ages 9789004519176, 9004519173

A great number of historical examples show how desperate people sought to obtain a glimpse of the future or explain cert

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The Book of Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages [16] 9042916222, 2005045854

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Excommunication in the Middle Ages

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Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000-1500 (Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages) (Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages, 2) 9782503588049, 2503588042

Medieval science has become an increasingly popular area of academic interest over the past couple of decades, but much

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Warfare in the Middle Ages: The History of Medieval Military and Siege Tactics

*Includes pictures *Includes chronicle accounts of some of the battles *Includes online resources and a bibliography for

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