Introduction : Approaching the medieval landscape -- Religious roots : foundation in the "forest wilderness" -- Controlling the domesticated landscape : value, ownership, and religious interpretations -- Fighting over forests : establishing social and religious authority -- Creating conflict : forests in the monastic imagination -- The religious landscape and monastic identity -- Epilogue : The Passio Agilolfi revisited
Summary
The author draws upon a rich archive of charters, property and tax records, correspondence, miracle collections, and saints' lives to explore the ways in which interaction with the natural world affected the "environmental imagination" and identity of the Benedictine monks of Stavelot-Malmedy in the medieval Ardennes
