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Medieval riverscapes : environment and memory in northwest Europe, c. 300-1100 / Ellen F. Arnold

Author
Arnold, Ellen Fenzel
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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1 online resource (xxii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Contents
Introduction: Medieval waters -- Poetries of place -- Rivers of risk -- River resources -- Rivers and memory -- Ruptured rivers -- Meanderings -- The same river twice.
Summary
Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex world. Using religious narrative sources to evaluate the environmental mentalities of medieval communities, Ellen F. Arnold explores the cultural meanings applied to rivers over a broad span of time, ca. 300-1100 CE. Hagiographical material, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historiographical works are explored to examine the medieval environmental imaginations about rivers, and how storytelling and memory are connected to lived experiences in riverscapes. She argues that rivers provided unique opportunities for medieval communities to understand and respond to ecological and socio-cultural transformations, and to connect their ideas about the shared religious past to hopes about the future.
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9781009299381 (ebook)
9781009299398 (hardback)
9781009299411 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Mar 2024).
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