A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England.
While the scale of today’s crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land contraction, soil depletion, climate change, pollution, and plague subsumed Western Europe. In a culture lacking formal scientific methods, the task of explaining and coming to grips with what was happening fell to medieval poets. The poems they wrote used the terms “waste” or “wasters” to anchor trenchant critiques of people’s unsustainable relationships with the world around them and with each other. In this book, Eleanor Johnson shows how poetry helped medieval people understand and navigate the ecosystemic crises—both material and spiritual—of their time.
"A moving and powerful study of neglect and ecological damage as reflected in the literature of the Middle Ages." - Times Literary Supplement
"One of those rare academic books that remixes a collection of ideas—medieval poetry, land management, weather, bees, God’s vengeance, and climate change—in a style that’s eminently readable, bringing the past to life and connecting it to the present in one engaging sentence after another." - The Christian Century
"Lively and accessible . . . [this] powerful study of 'waste' and 'wasting' shows how premodern thinkers used the category of waste to think about the human impact on ecological and social networks. . . . Johnson convincingly argues that premodern texts can help us think through how questions of value and belief might help us respond to our ecological, political, and moral waste and waste making in our own precarious times. . . . Waste and the Wasters is a book that has much to teach us about how the ideas we hold and the language we use to think through them can have real effects on the material world. " - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"Johnson’s study of medieval legal and literary ideas of 'waste' and 'wasters' belongs on the reading list of every scholar and advanced student of the poems Winner and Waster, Piers Plowman, Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as anyone concerned with modern ecological crises brought on by overly personalized and privatized views of waste 'products.' " - Choice
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While the scale of today’s crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land contraction, soil depletion, climate change, pollution, and plague subsumed Western Europe. In a culture lacking formal scientific methods, the task of explaining and coming to grips with what was happening fell to medieval poets. The poems they wrote used the terms “waste” or “wasters” to anchor trenchant critiques of people’s unsustainable relationships with the world around them and with each other. In this book, Eleanor Johnson shows how poetry helped medieval people understand and navigate the ecosystemic crises—both material and spiritual—of their time.
"A moving and powerful study of neglect and ecological damage as reflected in the literature of the Middle Ages." - Times Literary Supplement
"One of those rare academic books that remixes a collection of ideas—medieval poetry, land management, weather, bees, God’s vengeance, and climate change—in a style that’s eminently readable, bringing the past to life and connecting it to the present in one engaging sentence after another." - The Christian Century
"Lively and accessible . . . [this] powerful study of 'waste' and 'wasting' shows how premodern thinkers used the category of waste to think about the human impact on ecological and social networks. . . . Johnson convincingly argues that premodern texts can help us think through how questions of value and belief might help us respond to our ecological, political, and moral waste and waste making in our own precarious times. . . . Waste and the Wasters is a book that has much to teach us about how the ideas we hold and the language we use to think through them can have real effects on the material world. " - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"Johnson’s study of medieval legal and literary ideas of 'waste' and 'wasters' belongs on the reading list of every scholar and advanced student of the poems Winner and Waster, Piers Plowman, Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as anyone concerned with modern ecological crises brought on by overly personalized and privatized views of waste 'products.' " - Choice
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