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100 1 Squatriti, Paolo
245 10 Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy :|bChestnuts,
Economy, and Culture
264 1 New York :|bCambridge University Press,|c2013
264 4 |c©2013
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505 0 Cover -- Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy --
Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps --
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Trees, woods,
and chestnuts in early medieval Italy -- Scale and meaning
in the woods -- Peopling the woods -- Changes in the woods
-- Environmental history in early medieval Italy -- An
outline -- Chapter 1 A natural history of the chestnut --
The chestnut's work -- Working with chestnuts -- Chapter 2
The triumph of a tree -- Chestnut's spread: a European
chronology -- Chestnut's spread: Italy -- Contexts for
chestnut's spread -- The costs of adoption -- Ambiguity
and possession: making chestnuts property -- Chapter 3 The
poetics of the chestnut in the early Middle Ages -- An
uncertain organism -- The name of the nut -- Writing
chestnuts in antiquity -- Christianizing the nut --
Chestnut metaphors of the dark ages -- The color chestnut
-- Chapter 4 Chestnuts in early medieval Campania -- An
old story -- Living with the chestnut -- Eating nuts --
The chestnut's metamorphosis -- Chapter 5 Chestnuts in the
Po valley -- Chestnuts' late antique launching -- Rise of
a tree: causes and effects -- Chestnuts as property --
Pirating the chestnut -- Conclusion: Giovanni Pascoli and
the old chestnut -- Glossary -- Primary sources --
Secondary sources -- Bibliography -- Index
520 An innovative environmental history of the chestnut tree
and what it can tell us about the medieval history of
Italy
588 Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other
sources
590 Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access
may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated
libraries
650 0 Chestnut -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.;Chestnut --
Social aspects -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.;Chestnut --
Economic aspects -- Italy -- History -- To
1500.;Landscapes -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.;Landscape
changes -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.;Land use -- Italy
-- History -- To 1500.;Italy -- History -- 476-1268
655 4 Electronic books
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in Early Medieval Italy : Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture
|dNew York : Cambridge University Press,c2013
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