Legions of Pigs
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rynlingLegions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
https://www.amazon.com/Legions-Early-Medieval-Agrarian-Studies/dp/0300246293/
From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and transformed the way that people thought about the world around them.
Kreiner tracks the interlocking relationships between pigs and humans by drawing on textual and visual evidence, bioarchaeology and settlement archaeology, and mammal biology. She shows how early medieval communities bent their own lives in order to accommodate these tricky animals—and how in the process they reconfigured their agrarian regimes, their fiscal policies, and their very identities.
Yes!!! Someone wrote a book just for me!
I've always been really curious about European history and culture, but I'm bored to tears by wars and kings. This is exactly the sort of scholarship I've been craving.
https://www.amazon.com/Legions-Early-Medieval-Agrarian-Studies/dp/0300246293/
From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and transformed the way that people thought about the world around them.
Kreiner tracks the interlocking relationships between pigs and humans by drawing on textual and visual evidence, bioarchaeology and settlement archaeology, and mammal biology. She shows how early medieval communities bent their own lives in order to accommodate these tricky animals—and how in the process they reconfigured their agrarian regimes, their fiscal policies, and their very identities.
Yes!!! Someone wrote a book just for me!
I've always been really curious about European history and culture, but I'm bored to tears by wars and kings. This is exactly the sort of scholarship I've been craving.
