Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100
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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Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100
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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Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100

Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100

by Ellen F. Arnold
Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100

Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100

by Ellen F. Arnold

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009299398
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/28/2024
Series: Studies in Environment and History
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Ellen F. Arnold is Associate Professor of Pre-modern Environmental History at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is the author of Negotiating the Landscape and co-editor of the journal Water History.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: Medieval Waters; 200–450: Late Antique Gaul; 1. Poetries of Place; 450–750: The Merovingians; 2. Rivers of Risk; 3. River Resources; 750–950: The Carolingians; 4. Rivers and Memory; 950–1050: The Year 1000 Question; 5. Ruptured Rivers; 6. Meanderings; 1050–1250: A New World?; 7. The Same River Twice.
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