Screen LibraryWeeds and the Carolingians : empire, culture, and nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900 /
"For the first time, in this book weeds emerge as protagonists in early medieval European history, driving human farming strategies and coloring people's imagination. Early medieval Europeans' effort to create agroecosystems that satisfied their needs and cosmologies that confirmed Ch...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"For the first time, in this book weeds emerge as protagonists in early medieval European history, driving human farming strategies and coloring people's imagination. Early medieval Europeans' effort to create agroecosystems that satisfied their needs and cosmologies that confirmed Christian accounts of vegetable creation both had to come to terms with unruly plants. Using diverse kinds of texts, fresh archaeobotanical data, and even mosaics, this interdisciplinary study reveals how early medieval Europeans interacted with their environments"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-219) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781316512869 131651286X |
| Index Number: | SB613 |
| CLC: | K56 |
| Call Number: | K56/S773 |
| Contents: | Weeds, nature, and empire -- Weeds on the ground -- The time of weeds -- The worst of weeds -- The botany of paradise in Carolingian Rome -- The uses of weeds -- The politics of weeding in the Carolingian Empire. |