Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Barbara A. Hanawalt and Lisa J. Kiser chapter one Homo et Natura, Homo in Natura: Ecological Perspectives on the European Middle Ages 11 Richard C. Hoffmann chapter two Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages 39 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen chapter three Ritual Aspects of the Hunt à Force 63 Susan Crane chapter four The (Re)Balance of Nature, ca. 1250–1350 85 Joel Kaye vi Contents chapter five Collecting Nature and Art: Artisans and Knowledge in the Kunstkammer 115 Pamela H. Smith chapter six “Procreate Like Trees”: Generation and Society in Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici 137 Marjorie Swann chapter seven Human Nature: Observing Dutch Brazil 155 Julie Berger Hochstrasser Bibliography 201 Contributors 225 Index 227 ...