Negotiating the landscape
Subtitle: environment and monastic identity in the medieval Ardennes
By: Ellen F. Arnold
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780812244632
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Abbaye de Stavelot (Stavelot, Belgium); Human ecology; History; Landscapes; Benedictine monasteries; Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Approaching the Medieval Landscape 1; title: Chapter 1. Religious Roots: Foundation in the "Forest Wilderness" 31; title: Chapter 2. Controlling the Domesticated Landscape: Value, Ownership, and Religious Interpretations 62; title: Chapter 3. Fighting over Forests: Establishing Social and Religious Authority 110; title: Chapter 4. Creating Conflict: Forests in the Monastic Imagination 145; title: Chapter 5. The Religious Landscape and Monastic Identity 173; title: Epilogue: The Passio Agilolfi Revisited 213; title: Timeline 219; title: Handlist of Sources 223; title: Notes 227; title: Bibliography 271; title: Index 289; title: Acknowledgments 299