We’re trying to come up with an official name for our network. The current leading suggestion is:
Environmental History Network for the Middle Ages (EHN4MA) which can be pronouned as “enforma”.
We had a few other ideas as well, including Medieval Environmental History Network (MEHN), Network of Medieval Environmental History (NOMEH), Historians of the Medieval Environment (HOME) [...]
Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe
Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations
Fourth International Workshop of the Interdisciplinary Association “Gentes trans Albiam – Europe East of the Elbe in the Middle Ages”
Keele Campus of York University, Toronto, 26-27 March 2010
Medieval Europe east of the Elbe presents an interesting field for [...]
Make plans now to attend the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010.
Ellen Arnold (earnold@macalester.edu) has organized three regular paper sessions and one roundtable on medieval environmental history for the 2010 meeting. For those of you participating in the sessions, note that your participant form and abstract must be submitted [...]
Dolly Jørgensen was awarded the European Society for Environmental History 2009 publication prize for her article “Cooperative Sanitation: Managing Streets and Gutters in Late Medieval England and Scandinavia,” Technology and Culture 49 (2008), 547-567. All articles on environmental history, broadly defined, in any European language published in 2007 or 2008 were eligible. The prize included [...]