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The Medieval History Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, 149-178 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/097194580100400201

The Humanisation of Nature in the Middle Ages

Carlos Barros

Departmento de Historia Medieval, Facultad de Geographia e Historia, 15703 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

This essay argues that unlike the ideology of economic production and accumulation, which is the driving force of modern secular society and which establishes adversarial relations between man and nature, medievel society was guided by the ideology of reli gion, where nature was perceived as the manifestation of God; hence violence against nature was tantamount to violence against God. This created an ambience of both tension and harmony between man and nature, an equilibrium that, on the one hand, humanised nature, and on the other, prevented man from plundering it.


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