Screen LibraryNegotiating the landscape : environment and monastic identity in the medieval ardennes /
Ellen Arnold draws upon a rich archive of charters, property and tax records, correspondence, miracle collections and saints' lives to explore the ways in which interaction with the natural world affected the 'environmental imagination' and identity of the Benedictine monks of Stavelo...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The middle ages series
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| Summary: |
Ellen Arnold draws upon a rich archive of charters, property and tax records, correspondence, miracle collections and saints' lives to explore the ways in which interaction with the natural world affected the 'environmental imagination' and identity of the Benedictine monks of Stavelot-Malmedy in the medieval Ardennes. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 2 maps. |
| ISBN: | 9780812207521 |
| Index Number: | BX2612 |
| CLC: | B929.564 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Approaching the Medieval Landscape -- Chapter 1. Religious Roots -- Chapter 2. Controlling the Domesticated Landscape -- Chapter 3. Fighting over Forests -- Chapter 4. Creating Conflict -- Chapter 5. The Religious Landscape and Monastic Identity -- Epilogue. The Passio Agilolfi Revisited -- Timeline -- Handlist of Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |