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1. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages

   The Crucible of Nature

   By John Aberth

   The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind’s relationship with the environment...

   To Be Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. From the Brink of the Apocalypse

   Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages, 2nd Edition

   By John Aberth

   Praise for the first edition: "Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of York The later Middle Ages was a period of...

   Published November 8th 2009 by Routledge
3. A Knight at the Movies

   Medieval History on Film

   By John Aberth

   Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Historians increasingly feel the need to weigh in on popular depictions of the past, since so much of the public's knowledge of history...

   Published July 28th 2003 by Routledge