Verfasst von: | Squatriti, Paolo [VerfasserIn] |
Titel: | Weeds and the Carolingians |
Titelzusatz: | empire, culture, and nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900 |
Verf.angabe: | Paolo Squatriti (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) |
Verlagsort: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore |
Verlag: | Cambridge University Press |
Jahr: | 2022 |
Umfang: | xi, 224 Seiten |
Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 978-1-316-51286-9 |
Abstract: | Weeds, nature, and empire -- Weeds on the ground -- The time of weeds -- The worst of weeds -- The botany of paradise in Carolingian Rome -- The uses of weeds -- The politics of weeding in the Carolingian Empire. |
| "For the first time, in this book weeds emerge as protagonists in early medieval European history, driving human farming strategies and coloring people's imagination. Early medieval Europeans' effort to create agroecosystems that satisfied their needs and cosmologies that confirmed Christian accounts of vegetable creation both had to come to terms with unruly plants. Using diverse kinds of texts, fresh archaeobotanical data, and even mosaics, this interdisciplinary study reveals how early medieval Europeans interacted with their environments"-- |
DOI: | doi:10.1017/9781009072328 |
URL: | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072328 |
Schlagwörter: | (p)Karolinger <Dynastie : 500-1085> / (s)Landwirtschaft / (s)Unkraut / (s)Historische Umweltforschung / (z)Geschichte 750-900 |
Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Squatriti, Paolo, 1963-: Weeds and the Carolingians. - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 |(DLC)2022022763 |
| Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Squatriti, Paolo, 1963 - : Weeds and the Carolingians. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) |
Sach-SW: | HISTORY / Europe / General |
K10plus-PPN: | 1807980766 |