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Title

Thinking about the environment : our debt to the classical and medieval past / edited by Thomas M. Robinson and Laura Westra.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

• Robinson, T. M.
• Westra, Laura.

Description

vii, 26 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Nature in literature
• Environmentalism > History
• Philosophy, Medieval
• Philosophy, Ancient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Essays in English and Italian.

Contents

• Foreword / Alan Holland -- 1. Nature and Culture in Mesopotamian and Greek Myths / Michael W. Herren -- 2. Order, Harmony, and Justice: The Greek Conception of the Environment / Hideya Yamakawa -- 3. Una volta fui arbusto e muto pesce del mare [Once I was a Tree and a Silent Fish of the Sea] / Giovanni Casertano -- 4. Environmental Issues in Hellenistic Philosophy / Helen Karabatzaki -- 5. Il piu antico decreto ecologico a noi noto e il suo contesto [The Oldest Known Ecological Law in Context] / Livio Rossetti -- 6. Roman Forests, Vergilian Trees: Our Ambiguous Relationship with Nature / Lorina Quartarone -- 7. Augustine and Love of the Environment / Madonna R. Adams -- 8. Perceptions of Nature in Polish Medieval and Early Renaissance Writings / Teresa Kwiatkowska -- 9. Nature and Restoration in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival / Rosmarie Thee Morewedge -- 10. Natural Laws and the Laws of Nature in Aristotle and Aquinas / Laura Westra --
• 11. La tutela ambientale del lago Trasimeno in eta medioevale [Environmental Protection of Lake Trasimene in the Middle Ages] / Valentina Vincenti -- 12. Islamic Ecology: The De-Alienation of Persons from Nature / Parviz Morewedge -- 13. The Universe Alive: Nature in the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi / L. Clarke -- 14. Maimonides and Nachmanides on Sending Away the Mother Bird / Edward Halper -- 15. The Third and Fifth Day of Creation Versus the Timeless Now / Emilie F. Kutash -- 16. Reuniting Science and Value in the Natural Environment / Daryl M. Tress.

ISBN

0739104209 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002066133

OCLC

• ocm51232262
• SCSB-4322030

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries