Gender and the 'Natural' Environment in the Middle Ages

A collection of essays that explore how humans understood their relationship with the environment in the Middle Ages.

Using written and visual evidence from c.1150–1500 CE—including medical, literary, and scientific works—the essays in this collection address the relationship between the human and the “natural” at a time when new worlds, new texts, and new religious experiences reshaped the individual and collective relationship with the cosmos.