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Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West.

Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West.

・ISBN 978-0-300-24629-2 hard US$ 43.00

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著者・編者Kreiner, Jamie,
シリーズYale Agrarian Studies Series
出版社(Yale U. Pr., US)
出版年月2021.01
ページ数400 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<659-P1748 659-P2138>

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An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy

From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and transformed the way that people thought about the world around them. In this world, even the smallest things could have far-reaching consequences.

Kreiner tracks the interlocking relationships between pigs and humans by drawing on textual and visual evidence, bioarchaeology and settlement archaeology, and mammal biology. She shows how early medieval communities bent their own lives in order to accommodate these tricky animals-and how in the process they reconfigured their agrarian regimes, their fiscal policies, and their very identities. In the end, even the pig's own identity was transformed: by the close of the early Middle Ages, it had become a riveting metaphor for Christianity itself.