Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophyFrom North Africa to the…
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Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophyFrom North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. 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. 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.
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
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