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How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now.
Request Code : ZLIBIO3792079
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Year:
2017
Publisher:
Duquesne University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
304
ISBN 10:
0270788123
ISBN 13:
9780270788129
ISBN:
0820704997,9780820704999,0270788123,9780
Series:
Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

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