Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages
Comparative Contexts
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages; 8;
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 7 July 2026
- ISBN 9781843847809
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 graphs, 15 colour and 22 b/w illus. 700
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Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.
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WINNER: AFCEMS Prize 2024 Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning. Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world. The essays collected here aim to highlight human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when, whether symbol and metaphor, or actual and real, their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning. The chapters interrogate the pre-Anthropocene environment, reflecting on trees as metaphors for kinship and knowledge as they appear in literary, historical, art-historical, and philosophical sources. They examine images of trees and trees in-themselves across a range of environmental, material, and intellectual contexts, and consider how humans used arboreal and rhizomatic forms to negotiate bodies of knowledge and processes of transition. Looking beyond medieval Europe, they include discussion of parallel developments in the Islamic world and that of the M------ori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.
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Introduction: The Surrounding Forest - Michael D. J. Bintley and Pippa Salonius 1. Mother Earth, Sister Moon and the Great Forest of T------ne - Pippa Salonius 2. Beowulf's Foliate Margins: The Surrounding Forest in Early Medieval England - Michael D. J. Bintley 3. Bone, Stone, Wood: Encountering Material Ecologies in Early Medieval Sculpture - Meg Boulton 4. 'Mervoillous fu li engineres que croix fist de fust, non de pierre': Materiality and Vernacular Theology in the Wood of the Cross Legend - Laura Chuhan Campbell 5. The Evolution of Relational Tree-Diagrams from the Twelfth to Fourteenth Century: Visual Devices and Models of Knowledge - Jos------ Higuera Rubio 6. From Forest to Orchard: Arboreal Areas as Mnemotechnic Supports in the Middle Ages - Na------s Virenque 7. The Vegetal Imaginary in Exemplary Literature: The Case of the Ci nous dit - Pauline Leplongeon 8. Adam's Sister: Tree Symbolism in Premodern Mystical Islamic Cosmology - Samer Akkach Concluding Reflections
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