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<div align="center"><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental <br>
and Agricultural History<br>
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“Hunting and the Birth of Europe, AD 100-1100”<br>
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Eric J. Goldberg<br>
Assistant Professor of History, Williams College<br>
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From the Roman empire to medieval Christendom, hunting was the defining
badge of the European ruling class. Emperors, kings, nobles, and more
than a few clergymen demonstrated their violent domination of men and
nature by hunting stags, bears, and wild boars, and they proclaimed their
wealth and elite status through their boisterous hunting parties, large
private forests, and kennels of dogs and hawks. While historians
traditionally have dismissed the period between the Roman empire and the
twelfth century as a barbaric "Dark Age," an investigation into
aristocratic hunting practices reveals the cultural sophistication,
courtly manners, and classical inheritance of the early medieval ruling
elite.<br>
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Friday, September 15, 2006<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
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Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<br>
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