In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a
keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of …

In pre-industrial societies, in which the majority of the population lived directly off the land,
few issues were more important than the maintenance of soil fertility. Without access to …

Soils provide a striking demonstration of conviviality, thanks to the intensity and abundance
of lively interaction seething within them. Soils constitute and generate life precisely through …

Lovětín was a medieval village located in the Bohemian-Moravian Upland (Czech
Republic). It existed approximately between the 14th and the 16th century and was …

Abstract During the Early Islamic period, groundwater-harvesting agroecosystems in sand
appeared along the southeastern Mediterranean coast in the form of plot and berm (P&B) …

Based on the mostly unpublished finds of a 1970s excavation and the initial results of a
2020 survey and excavation of the remains of an Early Islamic Plot-and-Berm (P&B) …

Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a
common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply …

Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how
human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource—if we make better use of it …

For medieval rural communities the story of food did not necessarily end in its eating.
Culinary waste or table leftovers formed a valuable, if potentially noisome, resource that …

The British countryside is on the brink of change. With the withdrawal of EU subsidies,
threats of US style factory farming and the promotion of 'rewilding'initiatives, never before …