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The Green Ages

Medieval Innovations in Sustainability

By: Annette Kehnel

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The Green Ages

Medieval Innovations in Sustainability

By: Annette Kehnel

WINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY 'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, Oxford Fishing quotas on Lake Constance. Common lands in the UK. The medieval answer to Depop in the middle of Frankfurt. These are all just some of the sustainability initiatives from the Middle Ages that Annette Kehnel illuminates in her astounding new book, The Green Ages. From the mythical-sounding City of Ladies and their garden economy to early microcredit banks and rent-a-cow schemes, Kehnel uncovers a world at odds with what we might think of as the typical medieval existence. Pre-modern history is full of inspiring examples and concepts that open up new horizons. And we urgently need them as today's challenges - finite resources, the twilight of consumerism, growing inequality - threaten what we have come to think of as a modern way of living sustainably. This is a revelatory look at the past that has the power to change our future.

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Medieval Innovations in Sustainability

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Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an

Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th to 16th Century)

By: Annette Kehnel

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Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th to 16th Century)

By: Annette Kehnel

Clonmacnois was one of the main ecclesiastical centres in early Christian Ireland. Yet no comprehensive work has hitherto been published which examines its history as an institution of religious, social and economic life. This book undertakes a detailed analysis of Clonmacnois before and during the age of reform and assesses possible reasons for its subsequent decline as an ecclesiastical centre. It traces the history of the former lay-ecclesiastical aristocracy down to the later Middle Ages, and, using previously neglected evidence surviving in seventeenth-century transcripts, sets out to reconstruct the extent of the former monastic lands.

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The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing

By: Annette Volfing

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The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing

By: Annette Volfing

The Daughter Zion allegory represents a particular narrative articulation of the paradigm of bridal mysticism deriving from the Song of Songs, the core element of which is the quest of Daughter Zion for a worthy object of love. Examining medieval German religious writing (verse and prose) and Dutch prose works, Annette Volfing shows that this storyline provides an excellent springboard for investigating key aspects of medieval religious and literary culture. In particular, she argues, the allegory lends itself to an exploration of the medieval sense of self; of the scope of human agency within the mystical encounter; of the gendering of the religious subject; of conceptions of space and enclosure; and of fantasies of violence and aggression. Volfing suggests that Daughter Zion adaptations increasingly tended to empower the religious subject to seek a more immediate relationship with the divine and to embrace a wider range of emotions: the mediating personifications are gradually eliminated in favour of a model of religious experience in which the human subject engages directly with Christ. Overall, the development of the allegory from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries marks the striving towards a greater sense of equality and affective reciprocity with the divine, within the context of an erotic union.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317036433

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Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an

Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th to 16th Century)

By: Annette Kehnel

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Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th to 16th Century)

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The Green Ages

The Green Ages

The Green Ages

The Green Ages

Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an

Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an

The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing

The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing

Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an

Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an

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