In Andalusia, the dehesa landscape dominates. The question is whether the protection of the dehesas serves to safeguard the cultural heritage or the biodiversity?
Category: Medieval Nature
Wild Cattle in Britain – Descendants of Viking Cattle?
Also known as the Chillingham Cattle, Britain is home to four flocks of White Cattle living in the wild since the 12th century.
Rewilding – the Natural Climate Solution
Rewilding can’t alleviate all the climate challenges we face. However, it does offer a precious contribution, namely a decisive upgrade of carbon sequestration in forests, grassland and tundras. With biodiversity as an added bonus.
Is Rewilding just Another Form of Domination of Nature?
What the heck, does Heck Cattle have to do with environmentalism? Or rewilding? And is it amoral to resurrect such animals?
Return of the Mighty Beast, the Aurochs
Backbred Aurochs have been released into the Greater Côa Valley for the first time. The herd will play a vital role in restoring grassland and woodland habitats in the rewilded landscape in Northern Portugal
The Medieval Landscape as a Pastoral Christian Cosmos
The essence of the medieval Christian landscape was encapsulated in the idea of the beloved place of pleasure, Paradise
The Frightening Landscape in Northern Europe in the Early Middle Ages
During the first millennium, northern and eastern Europe was sparsely populated and devoid of anything but wilderness. How did it feel to live in this medieval world?
Medieval Europe in a Physiographical Sense
Turning the map of Europe upside down, we see a peculiar peninsula on either side surrounded by the Mediterranean and the Baltic, from where it struts into the Atlantic Ocean.
Medieval Landscapes – Two Points of View
How did people in the Middle Ages view their surroundings? What was their idea of a livable world? Which part was sacred? What profane? And what was wilderness? Did they even think of their world inside these dichotomies?
Why was the Medieval Wolf Hunted to Extinction?
Roman and Germanic people revered the wolf in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. So why did a pernicious hate of one of Europe's remaining predators supersede the veneration in the Early Middle Ages?