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Negotiating the Landscape : Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812207521
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Negotiating the LandscapeDDC classification:
  • 271/.1049346
LOC classification:
  • BX2612.A79 -- A76 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Approaching the Medieval Landscape -- Chapter 1. Religious Roots: Foundation in the ''Forest Wilderness'' -- Chapter 2. Controlling the Domesticated Landscape: Value, Ownership, and Religious Interpretations -- Chapter 3. Fighting over Forests: Establishing Social and Religious Authority -- Chapter 4. Creating Conflict: Forests in the Monastic Imagination -- Chapter 5. The Religious Landscape and Monastic Identity -- Epilogue: The Passio Agilolfi Revisited -- Timeline -- Handlist of Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Ellen Arnold draws upon a rich archive of charters, property and tax records, correspondence, miracle collections and saints' lives to explore the ways in which interaction with the natural world affected the 'environmental imagination' and identity of the Benedictine monks of Stavelot-Malmedy in the medieval Ardennes.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Approaching the Medieval Landscape -- Chapter 1. Religious Roots: Foundation in the ''Forest Wilderness'' -- Chapter 2. Controlling the Domesticated Landscape: Value, Ownership, and Religious Interpretations -- Chapter 3. Fighting over Forests: Establishing Social and Religious Authority -- Chapter 4. Creating Conflict: Forests in the Monastic Imagination -- Chapter 5. The Religious Landscape and Monastic Identity -- Epilogue: The Passio Agilolfi Revisited -- Timeline -- Handlist of Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Ellen Arnold draws upon a rich archive of charters, property and tax records, correspondence, miracle collections and saints' lives to explore the ways in which interaction with the natural world affected the 'environmental imagination' and identity of the Benedictine monks of Stavelot-Malmedy in the medieval Ardennes.

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