Thanks to Aline Hornaday and and George Ferzoco in corecting me. There were
descriptions of the environment in medieval literature, specialy medieval
poetry after XI/XII centuries.
Dennis D. Martin said: "These principles derive simply from the Christian
(Jewish/Muslim) belief
in God as absolute creator. Those who view the Middle Ages as
"otherworldy" and "world-hating" or "body-hating" may be influenced by
Enlightenment thinking which distorted the "means and ends" principle to
legitimate the unrestricted valorization of nature, a move they logically
were forced to make in the wake of having "put God out to pasture" as a
Deist Watchmaker or, in later modern development, killed Him off entirely."
I think that enlightenment convinced me. :o)
Patrick Nugent made an exceptional answer. I'd like just to put a question,
that is the same question of Claire L. Sahlin but from another side. Mr.
Nugent said: [the eremits gone to the wilderness to] "escape the moral
torpor of the human world". What is the human world? The cities, the spaces
over what the men had control? like the lands of agriculture? To put it in
just one questio: What was the frontier between the human and the natural
world?
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> De: Aline G. Hornaday <[log in to unmask]>
> Para: [log in to unmask]
> Assunto: Re: medieval views of the natural world
> Data: Terça-feira, 6 de Outubro de 1998 14:22
>
> The Song of Roland describes the Pyreneean scenery around Roncesvalles -
> just as it still is today - with great poetical power. Many more examples
> could be cited from medieval poetry. - Aline Hornaday
>
> At 01:23 PM 10/6/98 -0300, you wrote:
> >"Categories of medieval culture", of Aron Gurevich, (Routledge, 1988??),
is
> >interresting, specialy the chapters concerning Space, and time.
> >I've read some about the inexistence of landscape in iddle ages, and in
the
> >medieval stories (chansons, voyages, etc.) they haven't describe the
> >environment, just used words like, a mountain, a river, a valley, but
> >nothing else beyond it.
> >
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> >> De: Claire Sahlin <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Para: [log in to unmask]
> >> Assunto: medieval views of the natural world
> >> Data: Terça-feira, 6 de Outubro de 1998 12:03
> >>
> >> What studies could you recommend on medieval
> >> views of the natural world?
> >> The chair of the philosophy department at my university
> >> has written and argues that "people in the Middle Ages did not think
> >> nature was beautiful" (see his slide show at
> >> www. phil.unt.edu/show/).
> >> Any responses?
> >>
> >> Claire L. Sahlin,
> >> Director of Women's Studies
> >> and Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion Studies
> >> University of North Texas
> >> P.O. Box 305189
> >> Denton, TX 76203-5189
> >> (940) 565-2098
> >
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