Description
| Product ID: | 9780226830179 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Waste and the Wasters |
| Subtitle: | Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England |
| Authors: | Author: Eleanor Johnson |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Environmentalist thought & ideology, England, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England. While the scale of today’s crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land contraction, soil depletion, climate change, pollution, and plague subsumed Western Europe. In a culture lacking formal scientific methods, the task of explaining and coming to grips with what was happening fell to medieval poets. The poems they wrote used the terms “waste” or “wasters” to anchor trenchant critiques of people’s unsustainable relationships with the world around them and with each other. In this book, Eleanor Johnson shows how poetry helped medieval people understand and navigate the ecosystemic crises—both material and spiritual—of their time. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Chicago Press |
| Publisher Name: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-11-27 |
