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

Contributors

Contributors Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor and chair of English at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Of Giants (1999); Medieval Identity Machines (2003); and Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain (2006). He is the editor of The Postcolonial Middle Ages (2000). Susan Crane is professor of English at Columbia University. She is the author of Insular Romance: Politics, Faith, and Culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Literature (1986); Gender and Romance in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1994); and The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity during the Hundred Years War (2001). Barbara A. Hanawalt is the King George III Professor of British History at Ohio State University. She is the author of Crime and Conflict in English Communities (1979), The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1983), Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (1993), Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (1999), and The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval England (2007). In addition she has edited a number of books on medieval studies and has written articles on medieval social history. Julie Berger Hochstrasser is associate professor of the history of early modern northern European art at the University of Iowa. While 225 her research and publications to date have focused primarily upon seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting, her current work investigates other forms of art and visual culture resulting from the global cultural interactions of the early modern period. Richard C. Hoffmann is professor of history at York University in Toronto , Canada. Trained in medieval studies, he has evolved into an environmental historian of medieval and early modern Europe through his research, articles, and books on agrarian life, medieval frontiers, fish and fisheries, and urban ecology. Joel Kaye is professor of history at Barnard College. His area of concentration is medieval intellectual history, including the history of science and the history of economic and political thought. He is the author of Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (1998). His current research centers on the emergence of a new model of equilibrium within scholastic thought, ca. 1225–1375. Lisa J. Kiser is professor of English at Ohio State University. She is the author of Telling Classical Tales: Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women (1983), Truth and Textuality in Chaucer’s Poetry (1991), and many articles on medieval environmental history, the history of animal/human relationships , and other aspects of the premodern natural world. Pamela H. Smith is professor of history at Columbia University and the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1994) and The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004). She has published numerous articles on artisanal knowledge and culture in early modern Europe, and in current research she is attempting to reconstruct the vernacular knowledge of early modern European metalworkers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Marjorie Swann is associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England (2001). She is currently at work on a book entitled Without Conjunction: Desire, Society, and Anti-Fruition in Early Modern England. 226 Contributors ...