Medieval Environments II: Resource Exploitation

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Environmental History Network for the Middle Ages (ENFORMA); Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS)

Organizer Name

Ellen F. Arnold

Organizer Affiliation

Ohio Wesleyan Univ.

Presider Name

Richard C. Hoffmann

Presider Affiliation

York Univ.

Paper Title 1

Philip II Augustus and Woodlands: The Relationship of Politics, Economics, and Woodland Management

Presenter 1 Name

Kathryn E. Salzer

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Pennsylvania State Univ.

Paper Title 2

A Long Durée of Legislation: Firewood Collection and Usage in Medieval and Early Modern France

Presenter 2 Name

Richard Keyser

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

Paper Title 3

Strategies and Ecologies: Hunting in Northern and Central Italy between 1300 and 1500

Presenter 3 Name

Cristina Arrigoni Martelli

Presenter 3 Affiliation

York Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2014 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1125

Description

This session, the second of a pair of environmental history sessions, explores several different facets of resource use and how the management and exploitation of natural resources shaped economies, policies, and even social identities and power structures in medieval Europe. The papers all address concerns of forest and resource management--from the hunting of game animals to the collection of firewood and the exercise of control over woodlands as an expression of political control over people. Together, they show the diversity of source materials that can be brought to play in legal, political, and environmental history.

Ellen F. Arnold