| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Weeds, nature, and empire -- Weeds on the ground -- The time of weeds -- The worst of weeds -- The botany of paradise in Carolingian Rome -- The uses of weeds -- The politics of weeding in the Carolingian Empire |
| Summary |
"For the first time, in this book weeds emerge as protagonists in early medieval European history, driving human farming strategies and coloring people's imagination. Early medieval Europeans' effort to create agroecosystems that satisfied their needs and cosmologies that confirmed Christian accounts of vegetable creation both had to come to terms with unruly plants. Using diverse kinds of texts, fresh archaeobotanical data, and even mosaics, this interdisciplinary study reveals how early medieval Europeans interacted with their environments"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Weeds -- Social aspects -- Europe, Western
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Weeds -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Carolingians -- Agriculture
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Agriculture -- History -- To 1500
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Human ecology -- Europe, Western -- History
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HISTORY / Europe / General.
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Agriculture
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Civilization, Medieval
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Ecology
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Human ecology
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Western -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Western Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022022763 |
| ISBN |
9781009072328 |
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1009072323 |
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