There's still time! Find the perfect Father's Day gift with store pickup | Shop NowThere's still time! Find the perfect Father's Day gift with store pickup | Shop Now
Add Item to wish listAdd Item to wish list

Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England

By Eleanor Johnson
eBook
$11.99
By Eleanor Johnson
Membership Card Icon
Collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5. Learn More
Formats
See All Formats & Editions
Select a store to view item availability.

Available on compatible , the free NOOK App, and in My Digital Library

NOOK App

Download NOOK app

NOOK Devices

NOOK eReaders

  • NOOK GlowLight 4 Plus
  • NOOK GlowLight 4e
  • NOOK GlowLight 4
  • NOOK GlowLight Plus 7.8"
  • NOOK GlowLight 3
  • NOOK GlowLight Plus 6"

NOOK Tablets

  • NOOK 8.7" Reading Tablet
  • NOOK 9" Lenovo Tablet
  • NOOK 10" HD Lenovo Tablet
  • NOOK Tablet 7" & 10.1"
  • NOOK by Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 [Tab A and Tab 4]
  • NOOK by Samsung [Tab 4 10.1, S2 & E]

Free NOOK Reading Apps

  • NOOK for iOS
  • NOOK for Android

BN.com website

Go to your Digital Library in My Account

Limit 1 per customer
A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England.

While the scale of today's crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land contraction, soil depletion, climate change, pollution, and plague subsumed Western Europe. In a culture lacking formal scientific methods, the task of explaining and coming to grips with what was happening fell to medieval poets. The poems they wrot...

Categories

LiteratureLiterary CriticismEnglish LiteratureEuropean LiteratureEnglish Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary CriticismGeneral & Miscellaneous European Literature - Literary Criticism