Early Modern Écologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism. Pauline Goul and Phillip John Usher, eds. Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 310 pp. €99
[...]all beings, living and non-living, have a base language in common” (69). Renaissance climate theories come to the fore in Sara Miglietti's evaluation of Loys Le Roy, Jean Bodin, and Nicolas Abraham de la Framboisière, whose “worldview in which . . . divisions between nature and culture . ....
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| Published in: | Renaissance Quarterly 2022-04, Vol.75 (1), p.246-247 |
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| Summary: | [...]all beings, living and non-living, have a base language in common” (69). Renaissance climate theories come to the fore in Sara Miglietti's evaluation of Loys Le Roy, Jean Bodin, and Nicolas Abraham de la Framboisière, whose “worldview in which . . . divisions between nature and culture . . . operated in different ways than they do nowadays . . . , ‘pseudo-scientific’ as [it] may seem today, . . . provide[s] us with an unexpected resource for rethinking the problems that haunt our own relationship to the so-called natural world” (138). Oliver de Serres's richly illustrated agronomic reference work is dissected by Tom Conley via a word-and-image approach revealing how “the economy that goes with the concept and practice of mesnage has the tenor of a practical ecology” (259). |
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| ISSN: | 0034-4338 1935-0236 |