Growing scientific evidence from modern climate science is loaded with implications for the
environmental history of the Roman Empire and its successor societies. The written and …

What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human
beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through …

The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural
surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented …

Confirmed by an extensive international literature, forest landscapes reflect and influence
community cultural history. As palimpsests of archaeology they provide evidence of former …

This review presents European scholarship in environmental history by highlighting a limited
number of works which have proved significant in their respective countries. The decade …

Medieval environmental history is a dynamic and growing field, and this article introduces
some of the topics and regions that have become central to the field. As this article argues …

Wooded grasslands have always played an important role in rural life with changing issues:
They are of high importance for questions of biodiversity, soil, and water resources and in …

The vision of a widely inter-disciplinary and integrated field of landscape studies has in
recent years taken a much wider hold on the scientific and academic imagination of all those …

This introduction addresses some of the topics currently debated in landscape affairs. In the
first chapter I opt for a terminological definition of “environment” as the processual/scientific …

We make our life with things, surrounded by technical artefacts and technologies. They are
fundamental in the way we see and act, but only sometimes we are plenty aware of this …