Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy
Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture
Seiten
2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-63320-5 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-63320-5 (ISBN)
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.
This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable perspectives on the human transition from the Roman to the medieval world in Italy. Integrating evidence from botanical and literary sources, individual charters and case studies of specific communities, the book traces fluctuations in the size and location of Italian chestnut woods to expose how early medieval societies changed their land use between the fourth and eleventh centuries, and in the process changed themselves. As the chestnut tree gained popularity in late antiquity and became a valuable commodity by the end of the first millennium, this study brings to life the economic and cultural transition from a Roman Italy of cities, agricultural surpluses and markets to a medieval Italy of villages and subsistence farming.
This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable perspectives on the human transition from the Roman to the medieval world in Italy. Integrating evidence from botanical and literary sources, individual charters and case studies of specific communities, the book traces fluctuations in the size and location of Italian chestnut woods to expose how early medieval societies changed their land use between the fourth and eleventh centuries, and in the process changed themselves. As the chestnut tree gained popularity in late antiquity and became a valuable commodity by the end of the first millennium, this study brings to life the economic and cultural transition from a Roman Italy of cities, agricultural surpluses and markets to a medieval Italy of villages and subsistence farming.
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.
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.
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.03.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 4 Maps |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 228 mm |
Gewicht | 360 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-316-63320-9 / 1316633209 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-316-63320-5 / 9781316633205 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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