My research focuses on recovering useful information about animals which are extinct in Britain from medieval British sources (c.400-1600). When/why were the animals lost? How were they seen when alive? My current work looks at four species: the lynx (L. lynx), whale (E. glacialis, E. robustus), beaver (C. fiber) and crane (G. grus). In the near future I hope to also explore British representations of herpetofauna. Exploring the history of these animals can help inform modern conservation efforts, most importantly reintroduction.
]]>My research focuses on ecocritical approaches to Middle English literature. I am currently working on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English and Anglo-Irish literary representations of the non-human and the potential relationship of those representations to paleoclimatic data from the Middle Ages. My previous work has included attitudes toward the non-human environment in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ecocritical approaches to Chaucer, and attitudes toward the ecosphere in BL MS Harley 913.
]]>However, research projects range from the Neolithic to the modern period. Besides projects dealing with Neolithic flint mining in Southwest Germany and the Spanish conquista in Central America, my main focus is on medieval rural archaeology in Central Europe especially in Southern Germany. Currently I am German representative in the Ruralia—Jean-Marie Pesez Conferences on Medieval Rural Archaeology.
My interests are in environmental and social aspects of settlement and landscape changes, as well as in methodological aspects of historical archaeology.
I also teach at Tübingen university.
http://web.rgzm.de/?id=493
http://rgzm.academia.edu/RainerSchreg
http://archaeologik.blogspot.de/
I also teach at Tübingen university.
http://web.rgzm.de/?id=493
http://rgzm.academia.edu/RainerSchreg
http://archaeologik.blogspot.de/