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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Epstein, Steven, 1952- Medieval discovery of nature. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2012012295 (OCoLC)793221783 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Epstein |
ISBN: | 9781139550017 1139550012 1139554972 9781139554978 9781139207768 1139207768 9781139552523 113955252X |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207768 |
OCLC Number: | 810931604 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Cover; THE MEDIEVAL DISCOVERY OF NATURE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE DISCOVERY OF NATURE; FINDING MEDIEVAL NATURE; THE EXPERIENCE OF NATURE; GRAFTING; PIERO DE CRESCENZI AND HIS SOURCES; ST. FRANCIS; 2 THE INVENTION OF MULES; MULES IN EARLY DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS; MEDIEVAL REFERENCE WORKS ON MULES; THE PARENTS OF MULES; 3 LIKE PRODUCES LIKE; CREATION AND BEYOND; ANCIENT INHERITABILITY REAPPEARS; THE JEWS AND INHERITABILITY; OTHER THEORIES OF INHERITABILITY; 4 THE NATURE OF PROPERTY; PRIVATE PROPERTY. MAKING A WILLUSURY; REASONS NOT TO WORK; 5 THE NATURE OF DISASTER; A NATURAL DISASTER MODEL; A TEST CASE IN SAVOY; GENOESE DISASTERS; PLAGUE; PERIL AND RISK IN NATURE; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ARCHIVAL SOURCES; PRIMARY SOURCES IN PRINT; SECONDARY WORKS; INDEX. |
Responsibility: | Steven A. Epstein. |
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Abstract:
This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium.
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"Recommened." -Choice "Epstein is a deeply erudite scholar, at home in the main medieval canon of theology, natural philosophy, literature, and law, as well as in obscure but illuminating texts from later medieval Italy, especially Genoa." -Richard C. Hoffmann, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Read more...
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- Nature -- Religious aspects.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
- HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
- Human ecology.
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
- Philosophy of nature.
- Europe.
- Civilization.
- Naturverständnis
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