Deltas are aquatic environments found at the interface between the final reaches of powerful
rivers and the sea. They are formed by river sediment that is deposited at their mouths …

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 context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water
management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse …

This article presents a modular, multidisciplinary methodology for tracing how different
communities in the deeper past adapted their behaviors and shaped their environments to …

This thesis is an examination of the Cistercian abbey of Coupar Angus, c. 1164-c. 1560, and
its place within Scottish society. The subject of medieval monasticism in Scotland has …

Pilgrimage, travel undertaken in pursuit of encounters with the holy, is a religious activity
which both predates Christianity and is practiced well beyond its bounds. 1 Within the …

How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world
shaped by the hand of God, how did they understand their own capacity for action? This …

While the relationship between religion and entrepreneurship has been explored in the
literature, much of this research has focused on how common religion affiliations are related …

Abstract This article revisits Lynn White's famous 1967 article that placed the blame for
environmental problems in the Western world on the Judeo-Christian belief system, and …

Southwest Greenland was settled, largely from Iceland, at the end of the tenth century.
Agriculture, based upon secondary products from domestic animals, lasted until the fifteenth …