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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John Howe , Michael WolfePublisher: University Press of Florida Imprint: University Press of Florida Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9780813024790ISBN 10: 081302479 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 June 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsIntroduction, by John Howe and Michael Wolfe Part One: Managed Landscapes 1. The Medieval Countryside of England: Botany and Archaeology, by Oliver Rackham 2. Veneurs s'en vont en Paradis: Medieval Hunting and the Natural Landscape, by John Cummins 3. New Habitats for the Rabbit in Northern Europe, 1300-1600, by Petra J.E.M. van Dam 4. Politics, Perception, and the Meaning of Landscape in Late Medieval Venice: Marco Cornaro's 1442 Inspection of Firewood Supplies, by Karl Appuhn Part Two: Created Landscapes 5. The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England: Inherited, Invented, Imagined, by Nicholas Howe 6. Tribal Landscapes of Islamic Spain: History and Archaeology, by Thomas Glick 7. From Alien Terrain to the Abode of Islam: Landscapes in the Conquest of al-Andalus, by Janina Safran 8. Private Pleasures: Painted Gardens on the Manuscript Page, by Bridget Ann Henisch Part Three: Imagined Landscapes 9. Landscape, Gender, and Ethnogenesis in Pre-Norman Invasion Ireland, by Lisa Bitel 10. Narrative Time and Literary Landscapes in Middle English Poetry, by Laura L. Howes 11. Creating Symbolic Landscapes: Medieval Development of Sacred Space, by John HoweReviewsThis fascinating collection of highly readable essays literally opens new vistas on the medieval landscape. - John J. Contreni, Purdue University Author InformationJohn Howe is professor of history at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Central Italy: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons and was a contributor to Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages (UPF, 1997). Michael Wolfe is professor of history and head of the Division of Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College. He is the author of The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France and the editor or coeditor of three earlier books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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