There will be many sessions with papers on medieval history at the 1st World Congress of Environmental History in Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8 August 2009. Look for these in your program:<\/p>\n
Session 2.5, Mapping global agricultural history 2:<\/span> Global agricultural systems in Eurasia 1000-1500, Janken Myrdal<\/p>\n Session 2.6, Man’s role in changing the face of a river:<\/span> (1) From peat river to international trade route. The “birth” of the Western Scheldt estuary as seen from a social-ecological perspective (Belgium-The Netherlands, 12th-16th centuries), Tim Soens; (2) Storm Flooding, Economy and Environment: The Experience of the Tidal Thames 1250-1550, James Galloway<\/p>\n Session 2.7, Climate histories:<\/span> Connecting Arabic and European medieval documentary data for reconstructing climate, Ruediger Glaser<\/p>\n Session 3.11, Using and abusing wild animals:<\/span> Cultural Behavior and Animals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Life: The Relationship between the Tribute and Asiatic Lions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Crisis (1400-1600), Lei Kang<\/p>\n Session 4.7, Grape & grain:<\/span> (1) Climatic variations in the Low Countries during the fifteenth century and their impact on economy and society, Chantal Camenisch; (2)The beginning of the grain harvest as a proxy for early summer temperatures, Norfolk c. 1270 AD – 1430 AD, Kathleen Pribyl<\/p>\n Session 4.8, Water management & land use:<\/span> (1) Historic Ponds in Rural Southern Burgundy: Water management from the Medieval Period through the Present Day, Elizabeth Jones, Scott Madry and Dennis McDaniel; (2) A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Environmental and Land Use Changes from Medieval Aged Reservoir and Mill Pond Sediments, Southern Burgundy; Tamara Misner, Marie-Jose Gaillard-Lemdahl, Michael Rosenmeier and Eric Straffin<\/p>\n Session 4.9, In theft and law, life and death:<\/span> (1) De mortibus animalium: livestock pestilence in Carolingian Europe, c. 750-950 CE, Tim Newfield; (2) Pig Husbandry in Late-Medieval England (1250-1400), Philip Slavin; (3) The Fish of the Sea in Late Medieval law,Tim Sistrunk; (4) Hunting birds to eat in Italy, thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, Cristina Arrigoni Martelli<\/p>\n Session 6.7, Reconstruction of the European climate in the past millennium:<\/span> (1) Seasonal climate variability and famines in Medieval Europe (1200 to 1499), Christian Pfister; (2) European climate of the past millennium: potential of historical climatology for its understandingand reconstruction, Rudolf Br\u00c3\u00a1zdil<\/p>\n Session 7.2, Perspectives on early modern resources:<\/span> Human effects on landscapes of Bialowieza Primeval Forest in the 14th-18th centuries; Tomasz Samojlik<\/p>\n Session 7.6, The study of modern and pre-modern rivers:<\/span> Towards a methodology for the study of pre-modern rivers, Robert Babcock<\/p>\n Session 7.12, Eminent domain, sustainability & resistance:<\/span> (1) Colonized Environments, Rural Resistance, and Moral Ecology in post-Conquest England and Late Medieval Orkney and Shetland, Vicki Szabo; (2) The Roots of Eminent Domain in Natural Resources: Under and Over the Ground in Medieval France, Richard Keyser; (3) Regalian rights in woods as a resource for mining in medieval Serbia, Jelena Mrgic<\/p>\n Session 8.4, Environmental risk & insurance:<\/span> (1) Managing environmental risks. Society and floods in the Upper Rhine Valley and Tuscany in the Renaissance (ca. 1270-1560), Gerrit Jasper Schenk; (2) Risk Management and Disaster Prevention in the Late Middle Ages. Facing floods in 13th to 16th century Central Europe, Christian Rohr<\/p>\n Session 8.6, Histories of food & the environment:<\/span> Small is tasteful. Consumption patterns of eel in Northwestern Europe, 1300-1800, Petra J.E.M. van Dam<\/p>\n Session 8.11, Source & resources:<\/span> (1) Monastic responses to the theft of natural resources in medieval Germany, Ellen Arnold; (2) Is shipbuilding to blame for? Issues for reconstructing local factors affecting the history of medieval Mediterranean forests, Constantin Canavas<\/p>\n Session 9.6 Forests and Energy in northern and central Europe 1400-1850<\/span>: (1) Woodland Exploitation in Central Europe 1400\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1800: Changes vs. Stability, P\u00c3\u00a9ter Szab\u00c3\u00b3 and Radim H\u00c3\u00a9dl; (2) Holland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s energy economy c. 1400-c. 1600, Charles Cornelisse; (3) Wood and wood products in the English economy, c.1550-1750, Paul Warde<\/p>\n Also look for the following posters:<\/p>\n Beer and Hops in late medieval and early modern Denmark, Stefan Pajung<\/p>\n How extreme where the Floods of River Rhine in the pre-instrumental Period? A novel interdisciplinary approach for reconstructing and quantifying pre-instrumental floods, Oliver Wetter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There will be many sessions with papers on medieval history at the 1st World Congress of Environmental History in Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8 August 2009. Look for these in your program: Session 2.5, Mapping global agricultural history 2: Global agricultural systems … Continue reading