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Book SynopsisIn recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art and culture. These new approaches, drawing upon the material, spatial and post-human turns in humanities research, have directed scholarly attention to representations and histories of the non-human, and to the inarguable necessity of studying both human/human and human/non-human interactions in texts and cultures. Medieval Ecocriticisms is the first regular venue dedicated to medieval ecocritical studies. It seeks out the most current and innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and the environment in the global Middle Ages.
Table of ContentsMedieval Weathers: An Introduction, by Michael J. Warren
Weather and the Creation of the Human in the Exeter Book Riddles, by Heide Estes
Washed-Up Whales and Wintry Weather in the Sagas of Icelanders, by William Brockbank
Candle in the Wind: Weather and the Alfredian Candle Clock, by Neville Mogford
Showered with Praise: Weatherscapes in Late Tenth-century Skaldic Verse, by Hannah Burrows
Seasons and Senses: Morbid Sensations and Unseasonal Weather in Old English Medicine, by Irene Tenchini
“Tempest Thee Noght”: Meteorologically Inflected Observations on Chaucer, Dunbar and Henryson, by Gillian Rudd
