{"id":837,"date":"2023-01-26T07:14:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T07:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2023-01-26T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T07:14:38","slug":"medieval-round-table-the-nature-of-extraction-in-preindustrial-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Round Table: The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Geltner will be presenting at The University of Melbourne&#8217;s Medieval Round Table discussion group on <strong>6 February 2023<\/strong>. The Round Table is an informal forum that meets monthly, usually on the first Monday of the month, to discuss works in progress. It is open to all interested scholars and students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When: <\/strong>6:15pm local time (Melbourne Australia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: <\/strong>University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia <strong>OR<\/strong> Zoom<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further details via <a href=\"https:\/\/arts.unimelb.edu.au\/ancient-medieval-and-early-modern-studies\/seminars-reading-groups\/medieval-round-table#february\">The University of Melbourne Medieval Roundtable Page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-838 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/hcommons-staging.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/1000456\/2023\/01\/thumbnail_Annaberger-Bergaltar_middle_section-870x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Altarpiece of St. Anne\u2019s Church, Annaberg-Buchholz (Germany), c. 1521\" width=\"640\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hcommons-staging.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/1000456\/2023\/01\/thumbnail_Annaberger-Bergaltar_middle_section-870x1024.jpg 870w, https:\/\/hcommons-staging.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/1000456\/2023\/01\/thumbnail_Annaberger-Bergaltar_middle_section-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/hcommons-staging.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/1000456\/2023\/01\/thumbnail_Annaberger-Bergaltar_middle_section-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hcommons-staging.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/1000456\/2023\/01\/thumbnail_Annaberger-Bergaltar_middle_section.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As mining burgeoned across Europe from the thirteenth century on, the sector\u2019s promoters and observers had to contend with resource management in a new key.\u00a0\u00a0Ore extraction differed in scale and scope from traditional practices of agriculture and animal husbandry.\u00a0\u00a0It was also more visibly destructive and by many accounts impacted the health of people, animals, soils and crops.\u00a0\u00a0This paper begins by exploring such emic accounts and how they differ from present-day ecological and biochemical explanations.\u00a0\u00a0It then moves to ask whether the era\u2019s documented cultural responses to mining-related landscape change amount to an environmental turn or a secularization of Creation, a phenomenon scholars tend to associate with modernization?\u00a0\u00a0As this paper will argue, tracing early mining history can be inspired by environmental history while challenging some of its conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Geltner will be presenting at The University of Melbourne&#8217;s Medieval Round Table discussion group on 6 February 2023. 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