[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History FRIDAY 9-15-2006

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental
and Agricultural History

"Hunting and the Birth of Europe, AD 100-1100"

Eric J. Goldberg
Assistant Professor of History, Williams College


 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.

Friday, September 15, 2006
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095

Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science, 
Technology, and Society
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Margo Collett at <file:///mailto:mcollet@mit.edu>mcollett at mit.edu
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