Medieval urban environmental history lies at the intersection of environmental history, urban
history, and the history of public health. For many years, medieval towns were thought to be …

Lynn White Jr.'s “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis” 19 that “White's article signaled
the beginning of contemporary reflection on how environmental attitudes are shaped by …

The Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities of medieval Western Europe conceived of
the human body in manifold ways. The body was not a fixed or unmalleable mass of flesh …

In the thirteenth century, the Dominican grammarian John of Genoa com-piled his Summa
Grammaticalis, also known as the Catholicon. 1 The treatise sketches out a lengthy …

In the fifth book of his History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours recounts a series of devastating
river floods throughout southern Gaul:“In the fifth year of the reign of King Childebert [580] …

Among professional historians most of the influential innovations of the twentieth century
originated in Europe. Italians launched microhistory. Britons developed an anthropological …

This thesis is the first systematic examination of the textual and material evidence for
disease and hunger in Carolingian and early Ottonian Europe, c. 750 to c. 950 CE. It draws …

This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected
society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE …

Environmental history has been recognized as a new and growing field in the scholarship of
medieval studies1. In a recent scholarly survey which discusses the developments in the …

Human–environment interactions relating to changes in the hydrological system of the
Upper Vistula valley are poorly understood. This valley lies in the foreland of the …