Environmental History Network for the Middle Ages (ENFORMA)

A networking site for medieval environmental history

Archive for the 'Announcement' Category

ASEH prize to Rick Keyser

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

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!

Podcast on medieval environmental history

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

We’re spreading the word about medieval environmental history! The website Environmental History Resources has released a podcast of an interview with Dolly Jørgensen, co-founder of ENFORMA. In the interview, Dolly talks about the founding of ENFORMA, medieval environmental history as a field, and her own work on sanitation and resource management. Listen to the podcast.

Article wins prize

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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 [...]