Umfang:
1 online resource (xxii, 302 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009299381
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9781009299398
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9781009299411
Serie:
Studies in environment and history
Inhalt:
Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex world. Using religious narrative sources to evaluate the environmental mentalities of medieval communities, Ellen F. Arnold explores the cultural meanings applied to rivers over a broad span of time, ca. 300-1100 CE. Hagiographical material, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historiographical works are explored to examine the medieval environmental imaginations about rivers, and how storytelling and memory are connected to lived experiences in riverscapes. She argues that rivers provided unique opportunities for medieval communities to understand and respond to ecological and socio-cultural transformations, and to connect their ideas about the shared religious past to hopes about the future.
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ISBN 9781009299398
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781009299398
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/9781009299381
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