Sam White (Oberlin College) and Dagomar Degroot (York University) have recently established a Climate History Network online for environmental historians interested in climate issues. They would like to post climate history-related announcements from medievalists and to add more medievalists to the list of network participants.
Call For Papers: Medieval Weather and the Natural Order New Chaucer Society Congress, Portland OR July 23-26, 2012 Organizer: Robert Stanton (robert.stanton@bc.edu) Paul Dutton has written that “‘weather’ is properly historical and stubbornly subjective, since it involves humans in time thinking about it and how it affects their lives.” How were meteorological phenomena in the [...]
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and the European Society for Environmental History will hold its second summer school for doctoral students from 20–25 June 2011, in Italy at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza) in Venice. The topic of this summer school will be “Water–Culture–Politics: Perspectives in Environmental History.” [...]
Ellen Arnold, one of the co-organizers of the Kalamazoo 2010 gathering, has written up the following summary from the conference: In May, scholars from across the disciplines, including many of the members of ENFORMA gathered at the Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. It was a very successful meeting, with five sessions and 14 papers, and on [...]
For those of you who work on the environmental history of late antiquity, you might be interested in a conference to be hosted by the Roman Society Research Center (Universiteit Gent) in 2011 called “Land and Natural Resource Use in the Roman World.” See the conference website for more information.
Welcome to Medieval Environmental History Network, a networking site for those working on the environmental history of the Middle Ages. Environmental history is a growing subdiscipline within medieval history, but those working on the topic are spread out across the globe. The time has come to bring together some of the diverse knowledge and research [...]