Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England

by Eleanor Johnson

A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England.

While the scale of today's crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land contraction, soil depletion, climate change, pollution, and plague subsumed Western Europe. In a culture lacking formal scientific methods, the task of explaining and coming to grips with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226830179
• ISBN13: 9780226830179
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"