The Green Ages
Autor Annette Kehnel Traducere de Gesche Ipsenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781800816275
ISBN-10: 1800816278
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: B&W images throughout
Dimensiuni: 138 x 206 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: PROFILE BOOKS
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1800816278
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: B&W images throughout
Dimensiuni: 138 x 206 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: PROFILE BOOKS
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Professor Annette Kehnel studied History and Biology at the University of Freiburg, Sommerville College, Oxford and LMU in Munich. She received her doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. She has held a chair in Medieval History at the University of Mannheim since 2005.
Recenzii
Surprising and fascinating... This wonderfully original and eye-opening study will transform your attitude towards the medieval period
With The Green Ages, [Kehnel] has written a book of great joy: an environmental history of many facets, which explains how some pre-modern practices of sustainability are applicable to the present day
A zippy, fresh book that reminds us that history can be a treasure trove - if one looks in the right places and asks the right questions
An accessible account of medieval advances in economic theory
It is refreshing to see such a positive argument about what can be learned from premodern ways of living
Bold and exciting - a must-read
Bold, imaginative and vividly written, here finally is a historical survival guide in our climate crisis that reminds us that it is possible to live differently and sustainably
A wonderful and much-needed book
Deeply enthralling, erudite and thought provoking. Kehnel shows us exactly why the study of the past is so relevant for the very immediate future
A clarion call from the past to guide us through a troubled future ... Annette Kehnel's The Green Ages is a book written from the heart but with a head fully versed in medieval economic life and theory and as such it is a fervent cry to reconsider capitalism assumptions as to how the world should be run and to consider instead how to live more harmoniously and in partnership both with each other, with the seasons and the rhythm of the natural world. There is, Kehnel shows, much to learn from the past and if we want a sustainable future that is where we should first look
A committed and thought provoking book, rich in engaging examples and surprising alternatives, that makes it clear we need the past for our future
The Green Ages takes the reader through a fascinating journey over several hundred years of history to prove beyond doubt that a different kind of world really is possible. The book shows that human beings are as capable of cooperation and mutualism as they are of competition and individualism - and that reconnecting with these basic human instincts is the key to our survival
Erudite and engaging, The Green Ages presents a powerful critique of the ideologies of the 'modern age' by historicizing their guiding image of the human as the self-interested Homo economicus. Excavating times when sharing, recycling, cooperation, and frugality were some of the reigning values in Europe, Kehnel makes a point crucial to any imagination of change: another world is possible. An important book for all students of sustainable futures
[Kehnel] rips holes in the modernist myth of progress... more narratives like this are needed
With The Green Ages, [Kehnel] has written a book of great joy: an environmental history of many facets, which explains how some pre-modern practices of sustainability are applicable to the present day
A zippy, fresh book that reminds us that history can be a treasure trove - if one looks in the right places and asks the right questions
An accessible account of medieval advances in economic theory
It is refreshing to see such a positive argument about what can be learned from premodern ways of living
Bold and exciting - a must-read
Bold, imaginative and vividly written, here finally is a historical survival guide in our climate crisis that reminds us that it is possible to live differently and sustainably
A wonderful and much-needed book
Deeply enthralling, erudite and thought provoking. Kehnel shows us exactly why the study of the past is so relevant for the very immediate future
A clarion call from the past to guide us through a troubled future ... Annette Kehnel's The Green Ages is a book written from the heart but with a head fully versed in medieval economic life and theory and as such it is a fervent cry to reconsider capitalism assumptions as to how the world should be run and to consider instead how to live more harmoniously and in partnership both with each other, with the seasons and the rhythm of the natural world. There is, Kehnel shows, much to learn from the past and if we want a sustainable future that is where we should first look
A committed and thought provoking book, rich in engaging examples and surprising alternatives, that makes it clear we need the past for our future
The Green Ages takes the reader through a fascinating journey over several hundred years of history to prove beyond doubt that a different kind of world really is possible. The book shows that human beings are as capable of cooperation and mutualism as they are of competition and individualism - and that reconnecting with these basic human instincts is the key to our survival
Erudite and engaging, The Green Ages presents a powerful critique of the ideologies of the 'modern age' by historicizing their guiding image of the human as the self-interested Homo economicus. Excavating times when sharing, recycling, cooperation, and frugality were some of the reigning values in Europe, Kehnel makes a point crucial to any imagination of change: another world is possible. An important book for all students of sustainable futures
[Kehnel] rips holes in the modernist myth of progress... more narratives like this are needed
Cuprins
Introduction
1. Was Everyone Poor Before We Invented Capitalism?
1.1. The History of Progress: Modern Grand Narratives and their Pitfalls
1.2. Did Our Forebears Toil from Dawn till Dusk?
1.3. Europe in the High to Late Middle Ages: Some Dates and Figures
2. Sharing
2.1. Sharing Brings Riches: Convent Economy
2.2. Commons, and the Art of Internalising the External
2.3. Beguinages: Female Communities and Urban Gardening
3. Recycling
3.1. Maintenance Jobs and Second-Hand Markets
3.2. Paper: A Recycled Product Writes World History
3.3. Bricolage and Assemblage: Antiquity Repurposed for the Middle Ages
4. Microfinance
4.1. Microfinance Institutions in Italian Cities: The Monti di Pietà
4.2. Peer-to-Peer Lending in Medieval Towns
4.3. Agriculture on the Edge of Town: Medieval Rent-a-Cows
5. Philanthropy
5.1. Funding for Community Projects: Pont Saint-Bénézet in Avignon
5.2. Cultural and Social Sustainability: No Indulgences, No Michelangelo
5.3. Social Housing in Augsburg: The Fuggerei
6. Minimalism
6.1. Wealth is the Vomit of Fortune: Diogenes of Sinope
6.2. Money is Dung: St Francis of Assisi
6.3. Minimalism and Economic Theory: Pierre de Jean Olivi
7. What the Past Can Teach Us About the Future
7.1. What Would Our Ancestors Advise?
7.2. How to Escape the Prison of Inevitability
7.3. History: A Cure for Chronophobia
1. Was Everyone Poor Before We Invented Capitalism?
1.1. The History of Progress: Modern Grand Narratives and their Pitfalls
1.2. Did Our Forebears Toil from Dawn till Dusk?
1.3. Europe in the High to Late Middle Ages: Some Dates and Figures
2. Sharing
2.1. Sharing Brings Riches: Convent Economy
2.2. Commons, and the Art of Internalising the External
2.3. Beguinages: Female Communities and Urban Gardening
3. Recycling
3.1. Maintenance Jobs and Second-Hand Markets
3.2. Paper: A Recycled Product Writes World History
3.3. Bricolage and Assemblage: Antiquity Repurposed for the Middle Ages
4. Microfinance
4.1. Microfinance Institutions in Italian Cities: The Monti di Pietà
4.2. Peer-to-Peer Lending in Medieval Towns
4.3. Agriculture on the Edge of Town: Medieval Rent-a-Cows
5. Philanthropy
5.1. Funding for Community Projects: Pont Saint-Bénézet in Avignon
5.2. Cultural and Social Sustainability: No Indulgences, No Michelangelo
5.3. Social Housing in Augsburg: The Fuggerei
6. Minimalism
6.1. Wealth is the Vomit of Fortune: Diogenes of Sinope
6.2. Money is Dung: St Francis of Assisi
6.3. Minimalism and Economic Theory: Pierre de Jean Olivi
7. What the Past Can Teach Us About the Future
7.1. What Would Our Ancestors Advise?
7.2. How to Escape the Prison of Inevitability
7.3. History: A Cure for Chronophobia