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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Nature and Human Society in the Pre-Modern World 29
5. Unnatural Humans: The Misbegotten Monsters of Beowulf 97
6. Natural Environment in the Old English Orosius: Ohthere’s Travel Accounts in Norway 135
7. When Is a Good Time? Health Advice and the Months of the Year 153
8. Humans Serving Nature: Beekeeping and Bee Products in Piero de Crescenzi’s Ruralia commoda 169
9. Medieval Epistemology and the Perception of Nature: From the Physiologus to John of Garland and the Niederrheinische Orientbericht. Bestiaries and the ‘Book of Nature’ 189
10. Waste, Excess, and Profligacy as Critiques of Authority in Fourteenth-Century English Literature 217
11. “A New Flood Was Released from the Heavens”: The Literary Responses to the Disaster of 1333 253
12. The Environmental Causes of the Plague and their Terminology in the German Pestbücher of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 301
13. Island, Grove, Bark, and Pith: Nature Metaphors in Teresa de Cartagena 331
14. Nature, Art, and Human Perception in Giulio Romano’s Room of the Giants at the Palazzo del Te, Mantua (1532–1535) 353
15. Human Body, Natural Causes, and Aging of the World in Czech-Language Sources of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period 383
16. Perception of Air Quality in the Czech Lands of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 415
17. Johann Arndt’s Book of Nature: Medieval Ideas During the German Reformation 435
18. Imitation vs. Allegorization: Martin Opitz’s Influential Proposal Concerning Poetic Reflections on Nature 459
19. François Bernier and Nature in Kashmir: Belonging in Paradise? 485
20. Cosmology and Pre-Modern Anthropology 505
21. Praising Perchta as the Embodiment of Nature’s Cycles: Worship and Demonization of Perchta and Holda in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 549
22. List of Illustrations 581
23. Biographies of the Contributors 583
24. Index 589