Man and nature in the middle ages
By: edited by Susan J. Ridyard and Robert G. Benson.
Contributors: Ridyard, Susan J. 1957-; Benson, Robert G.
Series: Sewanee mediaeval studies -- no. 6.
Publisher: University of the South Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Sewanee, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Human ecology -- History.; Nature -- Religious aspects -- History.; Philosophy of nature -- History.; Philosophy, Medieval.; Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Natura ridens ; Natura lachrymosa / John V. Fleming; title: Nature as light in Eriugena and Grosseteste ; Nature and finality in Aquinas / James McEvoy; title: The bifurcation of creation : Augustine's attitudes toward nature / Frederick H. Russell; title: Some effects of the Judeo-Christian concept of deity on medieval treatments of classical problems / Richard C. Dales; title: Necessity, fate and a science of experience in Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon / Jeremiah Hackett; title: Nature's moral eye : Peter of Limoges' Tractatus moralis de oculo / Richard Newhauser; title: The materialization of nature and of quaternary man in the early twelfth century / Paul Edward Dutton; title: Celestial reason : the development of Latin planetary astronomy to the twelfth century / Bruce S. Eastwood; title: The subjugation of nature in the development of the medieval hunt and tourney / Everett U. Crosby; title: Chaucer's "kynde nature" / William Provost; title: Gawain in the wilderness / Edward Vasta; title: Zoology in the medieval Latin bestiary / Willene B. Clark.