A través de la Profª. Green (MED-MEDL) nos enteramos de la próxima celebración de este congreso que, según el programa adjunto, da mucho juego a los veterinarios interesados en la Historia del Medio. Es una buena plataforma, sin duda. ENLACE.
The European Society for Environmental History is meeting in Zagreb, Croatia, 28 June to 2 July 2017. The theme this year is “Natures in between. Environments in areas of contact among states, economic systems, cultures and religions.”
MEDIEVAL SESSIONS
3-E: Environmental History and Economic History: Bruce Campbell’s The Great Transition and the Late Medieval World I
Organizer: Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia, Canada
Chair: Ellen Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan University, USA
A Microperspective on The Great Transition: Remarks of an Historian of Late Medieval Italy and Central Europe
Martin Bauch, University of Leipzig, Germany
The Dynamics of Plague at a Global, Regional and Local Scale – Among Wildlife and Humans
Nils Christian Stenseth, University of Oslo, Norway
Comparative Patterns of Climate Change in Yuan-Dynasty China
Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, Canada
What Were the “Resources” for Medieval Economies?
Mathieu Arnoux, Paris Diderot University, France
6-E: Direct and Collateral Impacts of Warfare on the Medieval Environment
Organizer: Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan, USA
Chair: Richard Hoffmann, York University, Canada
The Impacts of Warfare on Norman Woodlands during the Hundred Years War
Danny Lake-Giguère, University of Montreal, Canada / University of Rouen, France
[…] Ermensul Usque Pervenit et Ipsum Fanum Destruxit […]. Charlemagne, the Annales Regni Francorum and the Famous Victory against the Saxons in 772.
Jean-Noël Rolland, University of Montreal, Canada / The University of Liège, Belgium
The Impacts of Fortifications on Flemish Cities’ Natural Environment and Urban Fabric (ca. 1280-1330)
Aurélie Stuckens, University of Namur University, Belgium
Sébastien de Valeriola, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
«Cives Ipsi Destruxerunt et Combusserunt». The struggles between Commune of Volterra and Bishop Pagano Pannocchieschi (1212 – 1239)
Jacopo Paganelli, University of Pisa, Italy
9-C: Medieval Environments
Organizer: Programme Committee
Chair: Ruthy Gertwagen, The University of Haifa
When Wolves Ate Men: Beasts and Nature in Late Medieval Italian Historiography
Snježana Husić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Uuluesheued!”: Changing Human-Wolf Relationships in Medieval Europe
Rob Lenders, Radboud University, Netherlands
Water-Related Ecosystem Services in the Polesine Region. The Costa di Rovigo Case Study (XIIth-XVIth centuries).
Dario Canzian, University of Padua, Italy
Remy Simonetti, University of Padua, Italy
Facing Natural Hazards in the Early Medieval West. A Methodological Approach to the Interrelation of Nature and Culture in Carolingian Time
Stephan Ebert, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
10-D: Premodern Animals I: Learning and Knowing Animals in Medieval Europe
Organizer: Cristina Arrigoni Martelli, University of Maine, USA and Tim Newfield, Georgetown University, USA
Chair: Martin Knoll, University of Salzburg, Austria
Making (and Dissolving) an Animal-Human Boundary in Old Icelandic Laws
Harriet Jean Evans, University of York, UK
Problems of Pastoralism in Medieval Britain
Susan Crane, Columbia University, USA
Grazing Regime Management and Animal Husbandry in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
Alasdair Ross, University of Stirling, UK
It’s a Dog’s Life. Late Medieval and Renaissance Courtly Hunting Canines’ Care and Conditioning
Cristina Arrigoni Martelli, University of Maine, USA
10-I: The Dance Of Death. Environmental Stress, Mortality And Social Response In Late Medieval And Renaissance Europe
Organizer: Andrea Kiss, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Chair: Gerrit Schenk, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
The Climatic Context of Major Plague Outbreaks in Late Medieval England
Kathleen Pribyl, University Of East Anglia, UK
Climate And Society in Sweden in the Late 15th Century
Dag Retsö, Stockholm University, Sweden
Apocalyptic Riders in the Borderlands: Dealing with Locust Invasion, Diseases and War in 15th and 16th Century Eastern Austria
Christian Rohr, University Of Bern, Switzerland
A Dynamic Interplay of Climate Variability, Biological Factors and Socio-Economic Interactions: The Late 15th-Early 16th Century Crisis in Hungary
Andrea Kiss, Vienna University Of Technology, Austria
11-D: Premodern Animals II: Fishers, Whalers, and Medieval Waters
Organizer: Cristina Arrigoni, University of Maine, USA and Tim Newfield Georgetown University, USA
Chair: Richard Hoffmann, York University, Canada
Fishing and Fishermen in the Frankish Peasant Economy (4th-9th centuries)
Fabrice Guizard, Université de Valenciennes, France
The Law of Catching Fish in the Later Middle Ages
Timothy Sistrunk, University of California, USA
Whale Watching in the Medieval North Atlantic: Marine Mammals and Northern Authors, ca. 900-1600 CE
Vicky Szabo, Western Carolina University USA
Whaling and War in a Changing Arctic, 1610-1640
Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown University USA
12-D: Premodern Animals III: Livestock Plagues in Comparative Perspective, 1200-1800
Organizer: Timothy Newfield, Georgetown University, USA and Cristina Arrigoni Martelli, University of Maine, USA
Chair: Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan, USA
A Model Disaster: From the Great Ottoman Panzootic to the Cattle Plagues of Early Modern Europe
Sam White, Ohio State University, USA
Mule Train Wrecks: Spatial, Climatic and Biological Contours of Mule Epizootics in Colonial Mexico
Bradley Skopyk, Binghamton University, USA
The Bones of Animal Plagues: An Inventory and Analysis of Archaeological Evidence for Mass Animal Mortalities in Western Europe (100BCE-1900CE)
Annelise Binois, The Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France
Mongolian Conquests and the Origins of Rinderpest
Timothy Newfield, Georgetown University, USA
OTHER MEDIEVAL PAPERS
Session 6-B
Quality of Overland Roads Network in Novgorod Land in the 10th — 17th Centuries as the Characteristic of an Anthropogenic Landscape
Alexey Frolov, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Session 8-B
Diseases and Environment – The Interplay: A Case Study of the Adriatic in Medieval Times
Matea Laginja, Central European University, Hungary
ANCIENT PAPERS
Session 4-C
Coping with Earthquakes: Lessons from Antiquity
Justine Walter, University of Leipzig, Germany
Session 11-F
Wood in the Antiquity. Aspects of Sustainability in Classical Athens
Sven-Philipp Brandt, University of Göttingen, Germany
EARLY MODERN PAPERS AND SESSIONS
Session 2-C
“The Water Kingdom”. A Linnaean description of pre-modern waters through the eyes of an 18th century hydrology study
Eva Jakobsson, University of Stavanger, Norway
Session 3-B
17th-Century Grassland Management Practices in the Julian Alps
Ziga Zwitter, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
3-H: Communities of Flow: People, Water and Environments in Early Modern England
Organizer: Leona Skelton, Northumbria University, UK
Chair:
‘The Syvern Water Did Ryse’: Communities and the River Severn at Shrewsbury
James Bowen, Liverpool University, UK
Dikereeves, Drainage and Flood Defence in Early Modern Eastern England
John Morgan, University of Manchester, UK
The Environmental Governance of Brewing in Northern English Villages, 1500-1800
Leona Skelton, Northumbria University, UK
Improvement, Custom, and Contestation in Seventeenth-Century Fenland Drainage
Elly Robson, University of Cambridge, UK
Session 4-B
Early Modern Commodity Frontiers in Fuelwood and Timber
Judith Watson, University of Brighton, UK
Session 6-A
Harvest Catastrophes in Hungary on the Time of the Little Ice Age: 1500-1900
Lajos Rácz, University of Szeged, Hungary
‘The English Ape’: Climate, Nordicity and National Identity, c. 1500 – 1650
Tayler Meredith, University of Birmingham, UK
Session 7-A
How Could the Maritime Struggle Affect the Environment of Portugal Within a ‘Composite Monarchy’? Managing the Forested Areas of Portugal From Spain (1601-1617)
Koldo Trapaga Monchet, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
7-H: Climate and society in contact zones and borderland areas in pre-industrial times
Organizer: Chantal Camenisch, University of Bern, Switzerland
From the Alpine Mountains’ Height to the Swiss Lake District: Climate and Society in Berne and Fribourg from the 14th to the 17th Centuries
Chantal Camenisch, University of Bern, Switzerland
From Tropical to Boreal Zone: Tracing Linkages between Volcanic Eruptions and Peasant Livelihoods in the 17th Century Finland
Heli Huhtamaa, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Impacts of Recurring Extreme Climatic Events on Societies and Landscapes in Provence and Southern French Alps in the Early 18th Century: A Comparative Analysis
Nicolas Maughan, Aix-Marseille University, France
Georges Pichard, Aix-Marseille University, France
Session 8-H
Peasant Resilience and Cultures of Disaster: Rinderpest in the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries
Filip Van Roosbroeck, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Comparative Perspectives on Long-Run Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes in the Zambezi-Limpopo Region of Southeast Africa, 1505-1830
Matthew Hannaford, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Session 9-B
‘Most Wilde and Barbarous:’ English Cultural Imaginations and Woodland Spaces in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Justin Donahoe, American University, USA
Session 10-F
Hostile Lands – The Influence of Environment on Warfare in Southern Hungary during the Great Turkish War 1683-1699
Vladimir Abramovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Environmental Consequences of Hussite wars in Bohemia (15th-16th c.)
Sarah Claire, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France
Session 11-B
The Sustainability of Natural Resources in Northern Italy (15th–19th Centuries)
Matteo Di Tullio, Bocconi University, Italy
Claudio Lorenzini, University of Udine, Italy
Contested Grasslands – On the Unequal Land Costs of Soil Fertility Management in Pre-Industrial Agriculture.
Dino Güldner, Klagenfurt University, Germany
Session 12-A
River Sava in the 16th Century – People and Communities in a Changing Environment
Branimir Brgles, Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia
