CONGRESS CANCELED Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Medieval World
Description
Changing environments and changing climates have become defining features of our current historical moment. Meanwhile, recent scientific and historical scholarship has traced the outlines of climatic and environmental changes in the pre-modern world. Medievalists now have the opportunity to deepen the history of such change and responses to it, using all kinds of evidence, from new scientific data on pre-modern environments to medieval discourses on the natural world.
This session presents examples of how medieval people experienced, interpreted, and responded to changes (or perceived changes) in the non-human world, from a broad range of regions and time periods. Abigail Agresta
CONGRESS CANCELED Perceptions of Environmental Change in the Medieval World
Schneider 1220
Changing environments and changing climates have become defining features of our current historical moment. Meanwhile, recent scientific and historical scholarship has traced the outlines of climatic and environmental changes in the pre-modern world. Medievalists now have the opportunity to deepen the history of such change and responses to it, using all kinds of evidence, from new scientific data on pre-modern environments to medieval discourses on the natural world.
This session presents examples of how medieval people experienced, interpreted, and responded to changes (or perceived changes) in the non-human world, from a broad range of regions and time periods. Abigail Agresta