Environmental History Network for the Middle Ages (ENFORMA)

The American Society for Environmental History has awarded the 2009 Alice Hamilton prize for best article outside of Environmental History to ENFORMA member Rick Keyser for his article “The Transformation of Traditional Woodland Management: Commercial Sylviculture in Medieval Champagne,” French Historical Studies 32, no. 3 (2009): 353-384. Big congratulations!

Tim Sistrunk would like to organize a panel for the 2011 ASEH conference tentatively named: “Medieval European Approaches to Issues of Sustainability”. The society’s call for papers is fairly rich with suggestions and widely disparate possibilities.  I, myself, hope to contribute something on “Regulating the Harvest in the Late Middle Ages”.  This will be legal [...]