Paolo Squatriti

Weeds and the Carolingians (eBook, PDF)

Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a dynamic picture of early medieval Europeans struggling to control their ecosystems, and creating relationships with their vegetable environments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009080064
• Artikelnr.: 70909951

Autorenporträt

Paolo Squatriti is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His previous publications include Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy (Cambridge, 1998) and Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy (Cambridge, 2013). The latter won a prize from the American Association for Italian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Weeds, nature, and empire
2. Weeds on the ground
3. The time of weeds
4. The worst of weeds
5. The botany of paradise in Carolingian Rome
6. The uses of weeds
7. The politics of weeding in the Carolingian Empire
Epilogue.