The Medieval Discovery of Nature

by Steven A. Epstein

This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan conception of natural history. These conflicting legacies shaped medieval European ideas about the natural order and what economic, moral, and biological lessons it might teach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107026458
• ISBN13: 9781107026452
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"